Great Totham Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Attainment has been consistently above average over the last five years throughout the school and is especially high in reading.

Pupils make good progress in all subjects and year groups. Teachers plan lessons and deliver them so that pupils' needs are well met and they make good progress. Teaching is consistently good in the school, and some of it is outstanding.

Pupils' behaviour is outstanding, both in lessons and around the school. Pupil's spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is good. This includes good links with different communities both within the United Kingdom and beyond.

Leaders at all levels are ambitiou...s for the school and plan actions that are further improving the quality of teaching. Teachers plan, observe and evaluate lessons together. Members of staff work well together in order to make an effective team that is bringing about improvements.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : Pupils' progress in writing is not as fast as that in reading and mathematics. Leaders have not yet refined the way they use information on pupil progress to plan actions to further improve pupils' achievement. Teaching does not match pupils' learning needs carefully enough to bring about rapid and sustained rates of progress.

Information about this school

Great Totham Primary School is larger than the average-sized primary school. The very large majority of pupils are of White British heritage. Very few pupils are learning English as an additional language.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those with special educational needs who are supported through school action is below average, as is the proportion supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs. The proportion of pupils who are known to be eligible for the pupil premium is below average. This is additional funding to support pupils known to be eligible for free school meals, those in local authority care and those from families in the armed services.

All pupils are educated on site. The school does not use alternative provision to support any of its pupils. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress.