Haworth Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. The headteacher and deputy headteacher provide clear and imaginative leadership. They are well supported by an enthusiastic and focused staff team.

The governing body offer good support and rigorous challenge. As a result, the quality of teaching and pupils' achievement are good overall and improving. Provision is good in the early years and children achieve well in all areas of learning.

They are well prepared for their future education when they start Year 1. Pupils of all abilities make good progress throughout the school in reading, writing, mathematics and other subjects. They are keen to learn and be independent in their work.
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Pupils with special educational needs, including those in the new designated special provision, achieve well. Pupils' behaviour and safety are outstanding throughout school. The quality of teaching is good overall.

Teachers have high expectations. Teaching assistants are trained and deployed well. The curriculum is exciting and well planned.

Pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is strongly promoted. In particular, the school makes an excellent contribution to pupils' health and well-being through its Food For Life status and as a Centre of Sporting Excellence. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Pupils do not consistently make the best progress they could in writing because they do not transfer the handwriting skills they are learning into all their written work.

Guidance through marking does not always help pupils to deepen their understanding and reasoning.

Information about this school

The school is an average-sized primary school. Numbers on roll have increased since the previous inspection.

The school has raised its admission numbers from one to one-and-a-half classes. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is above average. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils supported by the pupil premium funding is broadly in line with the national average.

The pupil premium is additional government funding to support pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and those children who are looked after by the local authority. The large majority of pupils are White British. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of Year 6.

Children attend the Nursery class on a part-time basis. It is a community nursery and many children transfer to other schools at the end of their Nursery year. This school year more children entered the school's Reception class.

In September 2014, the school opened an interim designated special provision (DSP) for children with communication and interaction needs, including autistic spectrum disorders. There are currently two pupils on roll. It is planned to expand to support to 12 pupils from across the local authority.

The school runs a before- and after-school club. The school is a Centre of Excellence for Sports England. The headteacher and deputy headteacher were appointed in September 2013 following the previous inspection.