Hennock Community Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. The headteacher, strongly supported by governors and subject leaders, has ensured teaching and achievement have improved since the previous inspection. Governors know their school well and are fully involved in checking all aspects of its performance.

They hold staff to account so that the quality of teaching and pupils' achievement continue to improve. Pupils' behaviour is good. They actively engage in their learning and work hard.

Pupils feel safe and secure because of the school's effective safeguarding arrangements. The school promotes pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development in ways which ensure they are prepared we...ll for life in modern Britain. The good quality teaching leads to pupils' improved achievement.

Teachers skilfully use questioning in ways which enable pupils to think deeply about their learning. Children get off to a good start in the early years provision. They make good progress because of the effective work by all adults in developing their basic skills through activities which capture children's imagination.

Pupils make good progress and achieve well. This is now especially so in mathematics, a key area for improvement in the previous inspection. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Pupils do not consistently use grammar accurately when writing in all subjects.

Pupils are not always clear what they have to do to achieve even higher standards in their work.

Information about this school

This school is much smaller than the average-sized primary school. In the early years provision there are two separate daily sessions in the Nursery across three days, and one full-time Reception class, which also includes pupils from Years 1 and 2.

All other pupils are taught in one mixed-age class: Years 3, 4, 5 and 6. The large majority of pupils are of White British heritage. When compared to national figures, the proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is higher than found in other schools.

The proportion of pupils supported by the pupil premium funding is average. This additional government funding is used to support pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and children who are looked after. However, there were few of these disadvantaged pupils in Year 6 in 2014.

The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics. The school is led by the headteacher, who has a strategic role in the Newton and Teign Federation which includes this school and one other. This other school was inspected separately, at the same time, by another lead inspector.