Kader Academy

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Kader is a happy and harmonious school.

It provides a caring and supportive environment in which pupils feel safe and are valued. Teaching is consistently good across the school and sometimes outstanding. From their starting points on entry all groups of pupils, including those eligible for the pupil premium, make good progress so that by the end of Key Stage 2 attainment is well above average.

Pupils' behaviour is excellent. They are polite and treat others with respect. They have excellent attitudes and enjoy their lessons a great deal.

This makes a strong contribution to their successful learning. Marking of pupils' work and ...the feedback they are given are of high quality. They inform pupils exactly what it is they need to do to improve and contribute to the rapid gains pupils make in their learning.

The curriculum provides a wide range of exciting experiences including after-school clubs. It is a significant contributory factor to pupils' outstanding spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. The headteacher provides strong leadership.

Senior and middle leaders robustly support the headteacher. Together they have developed a strong staff team committed to improving the quality of teaching and raising attainment. Leaders and managers have a secure knowledge of the school.

Actions are productively focused on improving the quality of teaching and increasing the rate at which pupils make progress. The governing body plays an important and successful role in supporting and challenging the school, which is helping to drive up improvements. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Teaching is not yet of a consistently high standard to promote outstanding progress.

Pupils are not given enough opportunities to engage in extended pieces of writing across a wide range of subjects and thereby develop the skills they learn in English lessons. Teachers do not always ensure that pupils of different abilities, especially the more able, have sufficiently demanding work. Consequently, some pupils do not make the progress they are capable of.

Information about this school

Kader is larger than the average-sized primary school. The proportion of pupils eligible for the pupil premium is below average. (The pupil premium is additional funding for those pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals, children from service families and those children that are looked after by the local authority.

) The proportion of pupils supported through school action is below average. The proportion of pupils supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is below average. The proportion of pupils from minority ethnic groups is well above average.

The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is well above average. The proportion of pupils who join or leave the school other than at the usual time is above average. The school meets the government's current floor standards which set the minimum expectations for attainment and progress in English and mathematics.