Greenwood Primary and Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

The leadership of the school is effective. The headteacher, well supported by other leaders, including governors, has successfully guided the school through a period of significant staff and governor changes. Pupils' behaviour is good, and is sometimes exemplary both in classrooms and around the school.

Patience, respect and courtesy are hallmarks of this school. Pupils say they feel happy and safe here. Pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is good.

The school's explicit focus on 'always doing the right things' underpins this. Teaching is good throughout the school. It is particularly strong in Key Stage 2.<...br/>
Pupils achieve well. Standards at the end of Year 6 have been average in recent years in reading, writing and mathematics. However, from the pupils' starting points, this represents good progress.

Pupils enjoy the very wide range of additional activities provided by the school. This is reflected in their above average attendance. Good teaching in the Early Years Foundation Stage ensures that children make good all-round progress.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : The work set by teachers is sometimes too easy and does not always motivate the most-able pupils to make their best efforts. Although most disadvantaged pupils make similar progress to others in the school they are not making fast enough progress to close the gap in attainment. The quality of presentation of pupils' work, including their handwriting, is inconsistent.

The school's development planning process is long and complicated. Many actions to be undertaken in a short space of time are encased in wordy documents.

Information about this school

Greenwood is much larger than the average-sized primary school.

The very large majority of pupils are of White British origin. Very few pupils do not speak English. About a third of the pupils are known to be eligible for the pupil-premium funding.

This is above average. Disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs make up about 8% of the school population. This is below the national average.

Children in the Reception class of the Early Years Foundation Stage attend school full time, Nursery-aged children attend part time, either morning or afternoon sessions. The school meets the government's current floor standards which sets the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in English and mathematics. The governors oversee the daily operation of a breakfast club.

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