Kelsey Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. The school has improved rapidly since its last inspection because of outstanding leadership that has secured better teaching and learning.

Children in Reception get off to a good start because they are well taught. Across the school, pupils of different abilities, including the most able, achieve well. Standards are above average in English and mathematics.

Teaching is good. The work is well matched to pupils' different abilities. Pupils behave well, enjoy lessons and attend regularly.

Pupils feel very safe in school. Those parents and carers who offered a view agree. Leaders keep a very thorough check on teaching and learning a...nd work successfully with staff to tackle weaknesses.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : Pupils are not routinely given enough time to respond to teachers' marking of their work. Marking in mathematics is not as helpful as it is in English. Pupils are not sure about the targets they are given to improve their work.

There are not enough opportunities for pupils to use and practise their mathematical skills in other subjects.

Information about this school

The school is much smaller than the average-sized primary school. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs supported at school action is below average.

The proportion supported at school action plus, or who have a statement of special educational needs, is above average. The proportion of pupils supported by the pupil premium is about half of the national average. In this school, this relates to those who are known to be eligible for free school meals.

There are not enough pupils to comment on their attainment without identifying them. All pupils are from White British backgrounds and none speaks English as an additional language. The school's national test results cannot be compared to the government's floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress.

This is because there are fewer than the minimum of 11 pupils required to make such a comparison meaningful. Pupils are taught in three mixed-age classes. Reception children are taught alongside Year 1.