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Warm and positive relationships permeate throughout Greenfield Primary School. Staff know their pupils well.
Pupils appreciate the support and care they receive. This means that pupils are happy and feel safe in school.The school promotes high educational standards.
Pupils, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), enjoy their learning and achieve well. They take pride in their work. Most pupils are ready for the next stages in their education.
The school sets high expectations for pupils' behaviour. The recent changes the school has made to the behaviour policy help pupils to understand what is expected of them. Pupils are p...olite and courteous.
They listen with attention to their teachers and each other. Pupils play harmoniously together. This begins in the early years where pupils are taught how to share and be kind to each other.
The school provides a varied range of wider curriculum opportunities, such as chess and basketball. Staff are ambitious that all pupils participate in these experiences. They take steps to allow this to happen.
Pupils enjoy the opportunities to be active leaders in the school community, such as becoming a prefect or a mental health ambassador. They take their roles and responsibilities seriously.
What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?
The school has ensured that all pupils, including pupils with SEND, access a broad and ambitious curriculum.
Some very recent changes mean that a small number of subjects are at an earlier stage of development than others.
The curriculum is well planned and sequenced. It clearly defines the essential knowledge and vocabulary that pupils are expected to know and remember as they progress through the school.
However, in some aspects of the early years curriculum, leaders have not identified clearly enough what they intend children to learn and by when. This means that some children are not fully prepared for their next stages in learning.
The curriculum is typically well delivered.
Teachers have strong knowledge of the subjects they teach. They present information to pupils clearly, in small steps. This helps pupils to understand the curriculum.
Pupils respond positively in their lessons. This includes in the early years, where children listen with attention to their teachers.
Teachers' checks on how well pupils are learning are variable.
For example, in some lessons, teachers do not check with enough frequency if pupils have understood important aspects of the curriculum. As a result, teachers sometimes move on to new content before pupils are secure in their learning.
The school prioritises reading and places it at the heart of its curriculum.
Staff are well trained to deliver the phonics programme effectively. Children in the Nursery, including the two-year-olds, enjoy listening to a wide range of books, stories and rhymes. This prepares them well for the phonics programme in Reception.
Staff complete regular checks of phonics learning. This helps to ensure that any pupils who are struggling with early reading receive the timely support that they require to catch up quickly. The reading books that pupils take home to practise reading match the sounds that pupils know.
This supports pupils to become fluent and independent readers.
The school has recently refreshed its systems to promote regular attendance for pupils. Staff have worked with families to overcome barriers to poor attendance.
For example, the introduction of a breakfast club is helping to improve pupils' attendance. However, a small minority of pupils do not attend school regularly enough.
Pupils with SEND are accurately and quickly identified by staff.
In lessons, staff generally make meaningful adaptations to the learning activities. This enables most pupils with SEND to access the same ambitious curriculum as their peers and they achieve well from their different starting points. The school liaises effectively with professional agencies and parents and carers to ensure that pupils with SEND receive the support that they need.
The school prepares pupils to be responsible and respectful citizens. Pupils are knowledgeable about how to keep themselves healthy and safe, including how to stay safe when playing or working online. Pupils learn about other faiths and cultures.
They understand the importance of treating everyone fairly and showing tolerance. Pupils are well prepared for life in modern Britain.
Staff appreciate the recent changes the school has made to support their workload and well-being.
They are proud to be part of a successful team. Staff value the priority given to their professional development. Governors provide support and challenge to ensure that pupils receive a positive education.
Safeguarding
The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.
What does the school need to do to improve?
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• In some areas of the early years curriculum, the school has not identified with enough clarity what it wants children to learn and by when. This means that some children are not fully prepared for the next stages in learning.
The school should set out clearly the foundational knowledge that children need to learn in the early years. ? In some lessons, the school does not make checks to establish whether pupils are learning the intended curriculum. This means that some teachers do not adapt their teaching, so at times, pupils find the work too difficult.
The school should ensure that teachers use effective strategies to routinely check pupils' understanding and use the information gathered to make appropriate adaptations to support pupils' learning. ? A small number of pupils do not attend school regularly enough. This means they miss important knowledge and develop gaps in their learning.
The school should embed recently introduced strategies to ensure these pupils attend more regularly.
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Further information
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In the report, 'disadvantaged pupils' is used to mean pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND); pupils who meet the definition of children in need of help and protection; pupils receiving statutory local authority support from a social worker; and pupils who otherwise meet the criteria used for deciding the school's pupil premium funding (this includes pupils claiming free school meals at any point in the last six years, looked after children (children in local authority care) and/or children who left care through adoption or another formal route).
