Hatfield Peverel St Andrew’s Junior School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Leaders have shown determination and acted decisively to bring about significant improvement in the quality of education. Their actions have improved the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, which is now good.

Governance has been strengthened. Governors know the school's strengths and priorities for improvement thoroughly. They provide effective challenge and support to leaders.

Most teachers use assessment information to plan learning activities that are appropriately matched to pupils' abilities. This helps the majority of pupils, including the most able, to make good progress. The curriculum supports pupils' personal and acade...mic development well.

A wide range of trips, activities and clubs add to pupils' learning in lessons. Pupils have a good understanding of other cultures. They are well prepared for the next stage of their education and for life in modern Britain.

Teachers and teaching assistants ensure that pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are supported well. This means that most pupils with SEND make good progress from their starting points. Pupils' attitudes to learning and behaviour are typically good.

Pupils enjoy and value their education. However, the behaviour of a small number of pupils in lessons or towards others does not meet leaders' and teachers' high expectations. Disadvantaged pupils' progress, although good, is less strong than that of their classmates.

Leaders do not check carefully enough which actions have the most impact on disadvantaged pupils' achievement. Assessment in subjects other than English and mathematics is not yet fully developed. This means that some teachers are less able to say how well pupils are doing in these subjects or identify their next steps in learning.

Teachers do not give pupils consistent opportunities to use and practise their writing skills in subjects other than English. Leaders have not ensured that all parents understand what they are trying to achieve. A significant minority of parents are concerned about aspects of the school's work, particularly how leaders deal with incidents of bullying and poor behaviour when they occur.

Information about this school

Hatfield Peverel St Andrew's is a Church of England Foundation school in the Diocese of Chelmsford. The most recent inspection of the school's religious character, under section 48 of the Education Act 2005, was carried out on 6 October 2016. The school is the size of an average primary school.

The proportion of disadvantaged pupils who are eligible for the pupil premium is lower than average. The proportion of pupils with SEND and those supported by an education, health and care plan is lower than average. All pupils speak English as their first language.