Elmstead Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Pupils' attainment is consistently above average and across the school they make at least the expected progress. The school successfully promotes a very supportive and nurturing ethos where pupils feel happy, safe and secure.

Almost all teaching is at least good and some is outstanding. Early years provision is good. Relationships with parents are strong.

All adults know children well and provide a caring and supportive environment. Pupils behave well in classrooms and around the school. They have positive attitudes to learning.

They know how to keep themselves safe online and in the wider world. Senior leaders have a clear focu...s on raising attainment and accelerating the progress of all pupils. Governors know the school well.

They make good use of school self-evaluation and improvement plans to provide effective support and challenge. The school is well placed to improve further. It is not yet an outstanding school because : The quality of teaching is not of the highest quality in all subjects all of the time.

The subject leaders for English and mathematics have not had enough opportunities to develop their role. They have not been able to make a full contribution to raising pupils' achievement and improving teaching. The partnership with parents is not sufficiently strong.

Many say that communication is not good enough, and that they would like to play a more active part in their children's education.

Information about this school

The school is smaller than the average-sized primary school. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is 2.

3%, which is much lower than the national average for primary schools. The proportion of pupils supported through the pupil premium is 15.5%, which is lower than average.

The pupil premium is additional funding for pupils known to be in receipt of free school meals and those looked after by the local authority. These groups of disadvantaged pupils underachieve nationally. Over 90% of pupils are of White British heritage.

Pupils attend from Reception to Year 6. Children in the Reception class attend full time. There is an on-site nursery but this is not managed by the governing body and was not part of the inspection.

The school exceeds the current government floor standards, which set minimum national expectations for pupils' progress and attainment in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of Year 6. The headteacher will retire at the end of the current academic year. The governing body hope to appoint his successor next year.

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