Browick Road Primary and Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an outstanding school.

Outstanding leadership and management has ensured that the excellent quality found at the last inspection has been maintained and further strengthened. Children in the Reception Year get off to an excellent start, settle into school quickly and make outstanding progress in all areas of learning. The very large majority of pupils achieve exceptionally well in reading, writing and mathematics.

Pupils in the special resource base for speech, language and communication needs (SCLN) make outstanding progress. In the past five years all have successfully moved into mainstream schools. Teaching is consistently good and much is outstandi...ng, enabling pupils to make excellent progress as they move through the school.

All teachers have high expectations for learning. They ensure that there is a close match of learning tasks to pupils' different levels of ability. As a result, all pupils are fully engaged in their learning.

Pupils are exceptionally well behaved in lessons and around the schools. They stay safe, enjoy learning and their attendance is above average. Senior leaders rigorously check the quality of teaching and learning to ensure that all pupils are doing their best.

Since the last inspection, senior leaders have ensured significant improvements to assessment, provision for gifted and talented pupils and consultation between parents and teachers. Governors know the school well and work closely with all leaders to hold the school to account for its work. They challenge and question staff about school performance.

Information about this school

This three-form entry school is larger than the average-sized infant school. Most pupils are from White British backgrounds and very few pupils speak English as an additional language. The proportion of pupils for whom the school receives the pupil premium (additional funding for pupils known to be eligible for free school meals, those in local authority care and children who have a parent serving in the armed forces) is below the national average.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs supported through school action is similar to the national average. An above average proportion of pupils are supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs. This is in part because the school has a specialist resource base for 10 pupils with speech, language and communication needs.

There is a separate nursery and breakfast club on site, managed independently from the school and inspected separately. There have been no significant changes since the last inspection. The school received an interim assessment by Ofsted in April 2011 where its previous outstanding performance was shown to have been sustained.

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