Highbury Infant School and Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Strong foundations are laid for children's learning in the Nursery and Reception. The children make good progress throughout the school and Year 2 pupils reach higher than average standards in reading, writing and mathematics.

Those who fall behind in their learning are quickly given extra help to catch up. Staff are proud to belong to the school. They engage pupils well in interesting activities.

Teachers carefully check pupils' progress and pupils know how to improve their work. Staff take care of all the children extremely well. Pupils feel safe and know how to keep themselves safe.

Their behaviour is excellent. Pupils' very ...good attendance is evidence of their great enjoyment of school. They regularly help teachers to make decisions about improving provision.

Under the headteacher's strong leadership and wise management, the school continues to improve. There is excellent provision for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. The school has an excellent partnership with parents who are extremely supportive.

The Governing Body is challenging and knowledgeable and keeps a close eye on the progress of pupils and teachers' work. It is not yet an outstanding school because : In occasional lessons, teachers are not sufficiently clear about what they intend pupils to learn and do not give them enough time to do their own work. Teachers' appraisal objectives are not always precisely matched to improvements in pupils' learning.

When teachers in charge of subjects and areas check colleagues' work, they do not identify how pupils' learning has been influenced.

Information about this school

The size of the school is average. The proportion of pupils eligible for the pupil premium, the additional government funding for those in the care of the local authority, those with a parent in the armed services and those who are known to be eligible for free school meals, is lower than average.

Although the large majority of pupils are White British, there is a higher than average proportion of pupils from minority ethnic groups and a higher than average proportion have English as an additional language. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs who are supported at school action is lower than average as is the proportion of pupils supported on school action plus. There are no pupils with statements of special educational needs.

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