Deanshanger Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a school that requires improvement Senior leaders have not acted with enough urgency to ensure consistently high-quality teaching so that pupils in all year groups make good progress and attain the standards they are capable of.

Senior leaders have not analysed the outcomes of their actions with sufficient precision to provide the necessary training and guidance to staff so that they can improve their practice. In some subjects, teachers' subject knowledge does not enable them to plan effective sequences of learning. Consequently, while the curriculum is rich and encourages pupils to learn, teachers do not systematically build and deepen pupils' knowledge well ...over time.

Not all teachers are routinely showing pupils how to tackle appropriately challenging tasks, particularly in mathematics and reading in key stage 2. Teachers do not show pupils well enough how to improve their work. A significant minority of parents, carers and staff do not have confidence that senior leaders address their concerns.

The school has the following strengths The school has an ethos of care and community that is well promoted by staff. Governors have responded effectively to external advice. They use their wide range of skills appropriately to challenge leaders.

Teachers have consistently provided effective opportunities for pupils to develop writing across the curriculum. The early years leader and staff team work together with great skill to enable children to make an excellent start to their education. The curriculum offers many opportunities to support pupils to be confident and responsible citizens of the future.

Pupils respect each other's views and collaborate well. They trust adults in the school to support them.

Information about this school

Deanshanger Primary School is larger than the average-sized primary school.

The majority of staff were at the school at the time of the last inspection. The majority of pupils are of White British heritage. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is below the national average.

The proportion of pupils with SEND is below the national average. The school has a lower rate of pupil mobility than is typical nationally. The school provides before- and after-school childcare.

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