Greentrees Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an outstanding school. The headteacher, leaders and managers have maintained a relentless focus on sustaining outstanding teaching. Standards have remained well above average.

From their starting points, pupils make outstanding progress in reading, writing and mathematics. This means their achievement is outstanding. Support for disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is carefully checked to ensure it makes a difference quickly.

Consequently, these pupils make excellent progress. The behaviour of pupils is outstanding because : they are highly motivated to work as hard as they can, to produce their best efforts and to improve what ...they have done. This helps them learn extremely well.

Pupils have an excellent understanding of how to weigh up any risks that they may face and make sensible decisions in the light of this. They feel very safe and particularly well cared for by all the adults around them. The early years provision is exceptionally strong.

Outstanding teaching, excellent resources and a constant focus on effective learning for all children mean that they make rapid progress. The curriculum is exciting and carefully planned to give pupils a wide range of experiences and opportunities to develop the skills they need to succeed. Pupils are encouraged to think carefully about how they learn so that they can become even better at it.

Middle and senior leaders make excellent use of the systems in place to gather important information about how well pupils are learning. They use this effectively to help plan further learning, to change the approaches they use or to improve the resources available. The headteacher and senior leaders set high expectations and make sure each teacher understands what they need to do to improve their practice.

Governors and senior leaders make sure that the statutory requirements for keeping pupils safe are all in place and regularly reviewed. In particular, they make sure that recruitment procedures check the suitability of adults who work with pupils. Governors know about the school and its performance in great detail.

They use their considerable expertise to challenge and support the school.

Information about this school

This school is of an average size, with one class in each year group and two classes in Reception. The school is currently expanding to eventually include two classes per year group.

This will include new buildings which are in the process of being planned. Most pupils are White British. Other pupils come from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have educational needs is average. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is about half the national average. In 2014 there were too few disadvantaged pupils in Year 6 to comment in detail on their achievement without them being identified.

The school is a National Support School. The headteacher is a national leader of education (NLE). She supports a number of schools in challenging circumstances.

She also works with the local authority to provide training and support for headteachers who are new to their roles. The school works with the University of Winchester to train teachers through the Schools Direct scheme. It is also part of a British Council international project, 'Connecting Classrooms'.

This is a cluster of six schools, three in Salisbury and three in Zambia, which work together developing pupils' learning and teachers' expertise. In 2014, the school met the floor standards set by the government. These are the minimum expectations for the attainment and progress of pupils in reading, writing and mathematics at the end of Year 6.

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