Finstall First School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an outstanding school.

Strong leadership and management have greatly improved teaching and pupils' achievement since the last inspection. The headteacher, governors and staff work together as an extremely effective team. They focus relentlessly on ensuring that pupils' achievement and personal development are excellent.

Leaders check pupils' progress rigorously and accurately. The staff team takes swift action to help any pupils who are not doing as well as they should, so all make outstanding progress. Standards are consistently high in reading, writing and mathematics.

Children make an excellent start to school in the early years. The high q...uality of education in the Reception classes means children are very safe and happy there. They achieve extremely well in all areas of learning.

Teachers have very high expectations of pupils' achievement and behaviour. They successfully challenge them to attain as well as they can. Teachers keep a very close eye on pupils' progress in lessons.

They provide very quick help to anyone who is confused, and challenge those who are successful to do even better. Teachers' marking of pupils' work is good and helps them to improve. Leaders are planning to share some excellent practice in marking with all colleagues.

The curriculum is wide ranging and exciting. It generates great interest and high levels of involvement from pupils. An excellent variety of clubs and visits extends pupils' enjoyment and learning.

The school actively promotes British values very successfully and develops pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development extremely well. They form very positive relationships with each other and with staff. Pupils' excellent behaviour and attitudes strongly support their outstanding achievement.

They are extremely keen to learn, work very hard and show high levels of concentration. Pupils rightly feel very safe and secure in school. The school has rigorous procedures in place to ensure that it looks after them extremely well.

Parents are very positive about the education in the school. They particularly value that their children are happy and feel safe there.

Information about this school

The school is above average in size for a primary school.

It has two classes for each age group. Children in the Reception classes attend full time. The very large majority of pupils are White British.

Very few pupils speak English as an additional language. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils supported by the pupil premium is well-below average. The pupil premium is extra government funding to support the education of pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals, or those who are looked after by the local authority.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is below average. The school runs a breakfast club for its own pupils. This was included in the inspection.

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