Jeavons Wood Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. The headteacher and the senior leadership team have brought about rapid improvements through the establishment of robust systems and processes to improve pupil outcomes. Senior and middle leaders are highly focused on securing the best outcomes for pupils.

Governors have a clear understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the school and are highly effective in holding school leaders to account. Teaching is good and continuously improving. Teachers plan interesting lessons that engage pupils in their work.

As a result pupils take ownership of their learning and make good progress. Pupils' attitudes to learning and behaviour are exemp...lary. They behave very well in lessons and around the school, and say that they feel very safe.

Pupil's spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is good. Through the broad range of topics covered along with the school's caring and nurturing ethos, pupils gain a good understanding of right and wrong. Leadership and management of early years are good.

Children have a positive, productive and enjoyable start to their education. As a result children achieve well and are ready to make good transition into Year 1. Pupils across the range of abilities make outstanding progress in reading.

They read widely and often. The school's work in keeping pupils safe and secure is outstanding. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Teachers do not always provide pupils with enough guidance about how to improve their work.

As a result pupils repeat their mistakes too often. Teachers give pupils too few chances to practise their writing skills in subjects other than English in depth. The systems to track interventions in particular for pupils with a disability or special educational needs are not yet fully developed.

Information about this school

Jeavons Wood Primary School is larger than the average-sized primary school. The proportion of pupils from minority ethnic groups and those who speak English as an additional language is below average. The proportion of disabled pupils is below average.

The proportion of pupils with special educational needs is above average. The pupil premium funding (extra government funding for disadvantaged pupils who are eligible for free school meals or those that are looked after) supports just over a fifth of the pupils in the school. This is below the national average.

Children in Reception attend full time. The school provides a breakfast club, after school club and a number of after-school activities. The 2014 results for mathematics at the end Key Stage 2 have not been published.

This was investigated by the appropriate bodies. Inspectors are therefore unable to determine whether the government's floor targets, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress, were met in 2014 or not. The current headteacher has just been recently appointed but joined the school in November 2014.

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