Caroline Haslett Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an outstanding school Through successful and well-structured professional development, the headteacher has ensured that leadership at all levels is highly effective. As a result, pupils benefit from outstanding provision and attain very well across the curriculum.

Governors, along with school leaders, are uncompromising in their determination that only the very best will do. They provide strong support and challenge for leaders. A unifying focus on pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is woven through everyday interactions and the curriculum.

As a result, the school is a harmonious and respectful place in which pupils thrive. Pupil...s' behaviour is exemplary. From the start of Reception Year to the end of Year 6, pupils are highly motivated, engaged and independent learners.

The highly effective teaching across the school is characterised by unrelentingly high standards. Teachers, kindly but insistently, expect the very best and pupils rise to the challenge with enthusiasm and relish. Teachers and teaching assistants work seamlessly together in well-informed partnerships.

These help to ensure that all pupils get what they need to succeed. Disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) make strong progress in all aspects of their development because their needs are met very well. Pupils make extremely good progress from their high starting points in all subjects to attain high and sometimes remarkably high standards.

Children get off to a very good start in the early years because provision is outstanding. Leaders ensure that children's skills are built on very successfully. Children enjoy learning and playing together.

As a result, they are very effectively prepared for success in Year 1 and beyond. The curriculum inspires pupils. Subject-specific skills are developed very well through carefully planned sequences.

In key stage 1, standards across the wider curriculum are especially high. Standards in key stage 2, while also high, are not yet always as aspirational.

Information about this school

This is larger than the average-sized primary school.

The school has a specialist provision with five places for pupils with speech, language and communication difficulties. There are currently four pupils receiving additional support through this provision. Breakfast and after-school clubs are provided each day and are run by the school.

The school is a diverse community, having 14 out of the 17 possible ethnic groups. The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is above the national average. The proportions of disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND support needs are lower than the proportions seen nationally.