Cam Everlands Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The headteacher has implemented a rigorous programme of improvements since his arrival. He has ensured good standards of teaching and learning are in place throughout the school. Senior leaders have a good understanding of the school's strengths and weaknesses.

They share a determination to promote rapid improvements through regular assessment. Teaching is good. Each pupil's learning needs are very well known and teachers ensure that all pupils are given individual support and guidance.

Teachers mark pupils' work regularly and give them valuable advice on how to improve. Pupils' outcomes are improving. From their starting points, most pup...ils make good progress over time.

Disadvantaged pupils make very good progress and achieve outcomes that are higher than average in national assessments. The gap between these and outcomes of other pupils in the school has closed. Governors are committed to improving the school further.

They ensure that all aspects for keeping pupils safe are of the highest standard. Pupils are happy in school. Their personal development, behaviour and welfare are good and they thrive in the caring environment.

Children in the early years are taught well. They enjoy a range of exciting and carefully structured learning activities. Attendance is very good for the large majority of pupils.

Attendance is consistently higher than national averages. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Some leaders have more than one area of responsibility, which affects their capacity to bring about improvements. The most-able pupils in Key Stage 2 are not yet challenged consistently to achieve the high standards of which they are capable.

National assessment results for 2015 in Year 2 and Year 6 showed uneven progress being made by some groups of pupils. Pupils do not always respond to teachers' marking by correcting their work or practising the next steps that teachers set them.

Information about this school

The headteacher has been in post since April 2014.

This school is smaller than an average-sized primary school. The proportion of pupils eligible for pupil premium funding is above average. This is additional government funding for pupils known to be eligible to receive free school meals and those cared for by the local authority.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is slightly above the national average. Children in the early years are taught in one class on a full-time basis. The school runs a breakfast club and a range of after-school clubs, which were evaluated as part of this inspection.

Nearly all pupils are of White British heritage. There are fewer pupils from minority ethnic groups or who speak English as a second language than in most schools of this size. The government's current floor targets, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in English and mathematics, are met and exceeded by the school.

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