Highley Community Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

From a low starting point, all pupils make good progress and achieve well in English and mathematics thanks to good teaching. Teachers give pupils extensive opportunities to work in pairs or small teams. As a result, they get on well together and have good collaborative skills.

Strong teamwork between teachers and skilled extra adults ensures that disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs are helped to make the same good progress as their classmates. Pupils feel safe at school and their standards of behaviour are good. They contribute to making the school a happy place for everyone.

The headteacher is supporte...d well in improving the school by a highly effective team of senior and subject leaders and the governing body. The wide range of learning opportunities contributes well to pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. It is not yet an outstanding school because : A small amount of teaching requires improvement.

Some teachers do not make the best use of assessment information to plan suitably challenging work for differing ability groups, such as the most able pupils. Some teachers' marking does not consistently help pupils to improve their work.

Information about this school

The school is an average-sized primary school.

Most pupils are from a White British background with a very small percentage from a range of minority ethnic heritages. Very few pupils speak English as an additional language. The proportion of pupils who are eligible for support from the pupil premium, which provides additional funding for pupils known to be eligible for free school meals, children in local authority care and other groups, is above the national average.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs supported at school action is below the national average. The proportion supported at school action plus, or with a statement of special educational needs, is above the national average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in English and mathematics.