Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The school has improved rapidly since the previous inspection. This is because the headteacher and senior staff have worked hard to bring about improvements in the quality of teaching and learning. Pupils are happy and feel safe.

They behave well and enjoy their lessons. Parents are pleased with how well their children are doing. Teachers plan activities that interest and engage pupils.

They enable pupils to make good progress from their starting points. By the end of Year 6, standards of attainment are average. Relationships between pupils and teachers are characteristically warm and friendly.

Governors are skilled and very supp...ortive. They know the schools' strengths and weaknesses. Children have a strong start to school life in the early years.

They make good progress and develop confidence and a love of learning. They enter Year 1 with the skills they need to be successful learners. The school prepares pupils well for life in modern Britain.

Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is effectively promoted through the curriculum. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Sometimes, pupils are not challenged sufficiently by the work that is set for them. This is particularly the case for the most able in Year 4.

Leaders do not regularly monitor the attendance of some harder to reach groups of pupils. Those leaders responsible for English and mathematics do not focus sufficiently on the progress of pupils when they look at pupils' books.

Information about this school

Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School is much larger than the average-sized primary school.

There are 90 part-time children on roll in the Nursery provision. Children in the early years are taught in two Reception classes. The majority of the pupils are either White British or from an Indian heritage.

The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is above the national average. The proportion of pupils supported by the pupil premium is lower than that found in most schools. Pupil premium is additional funding provided by the government for those pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years, pupils who have been looked after continuously for one day or more and those pupils who have been adopted from care.

The proportion of pupils who have special educational needs or disability is similar to the national average. The school meets the government's floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress. After the last inspection, the headteacher of Dartford Bridge Community Primary School was appointed to the role of executive headteacher at this school.

Dartford Bridge Community Primary School provided support with staff training and moderation. In July 2015, the current headteacher was appointed and the executive headteacher reduced her role to one day a week. The executive headteacher stopped supporting the school in December 2015.