Devonshire Junior Academy

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Pupils feel very happy and safe at this welcoming school and they are eager to learn.

Pupils who complete the whole key stage at the school make good progress. In 2013, all groups of pupils made particularly strong progress in writing. Disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs achieve well and benefit from a high quality of care.

Pupils known to be eligible for free school meals achieve at least as well as other pupils and are given every opportunity to succeed. The quality of teaching is good and a growing proportion is outstanding. Teachers are skilled at giving pupils work that is pitched at the right level so that ...it is neither too hard nor too easy.

Behaviour is outstanding and this helps pupils to make good progress in lessons. The school provides excellent opportunities for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Since the last inspection, the dynamic leadership of the headteacher has had a significant impact on improving the quality of teaching and raising pupils' achievement.

Governors and other school leaders have made a strong contribution to the improvements in teaching and achievement. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Recent standards in mathematics have been below average for some pupils. Not all teachers have enough experience in planning and delivering the most stimulating and imaginative lessons.

The standards and progress in reading of the most-able pupils has been lower than the national average. The quality of work in some pupils' books is not always high for all subjects.

Information about this school

Devonshire Junior School is larger than the average-sized primary school.

The very large majority of pupils come from minority ethnic backgrounds, mainly Indian and Pakistani. The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is well above the national average. The proportion of pupils who are eligible for the pupil premium (which provides additional funding for pupils in local authority care, those known to be eligible for free school meals and others) is above average.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs supported through school action is average. The proportion supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is also average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for attainment and progress.

The headteacher also acts as executive headteacher for the infant school that shares the same site. Both schools are run by the same governing body but are inspected separately. The local authority has asked the headteacher to act as an adviser to another local infant school.

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