Keyworth Primary and Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

Leaders create a caring and supportive 'family-feel' culture where the aim for high achievement is shared by the whole school community. This has led to major improvements in teaching and achievement. Pupils throughout the school make good progress.

Standards in English and mathematics are rising swiftly, especially in reading. Teaching shows sustained improvement. It inspires pupils' enjoyment and interest, while requiring them to think hard.

Teaching assistants make a highly effective contribution to pupils' learning. Pupils enjoy school because they are valued by all staff as unique individuals. The school supports pupils who... need extra help in learning well.

This enables them to make good progress. Pupils' eagerness to learn, their behaviour around the school and the effective way that they are kept safe contribute well to school life. The high-quality experiences, visits and additional activities provided by the school make a lasting contribution to broadening pupils' horizons, providing extra interest and excitement to learning.

The school promotes pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development exceptionally well. The exciting work with the Royal Shakespeare Company deepens pupils' understanding of their cultural heritage. Governors strongly support school leaders in setting high expectations that are raising pupils' achievement.

Teaching is checked thoroughly and swift action taken so that it has improved, along with all other aspects of the school. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Pupils' spelling is not as well developed as other aspects of their writing. Not all staff ensure that pupils' handwriting ensures neat presentation of written work.

Pupils' fluency in mental mathematics is not given enough importance in some classes and this impedes progress for some pupils.

Information about this school

This is a smaller than average-sized primary school in which most pupils are White British. The proportion of pupils supported by pupil premium funding is above average.

(The pupil premium is additional funding for pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and those who are looked after by the local authority). The proportion of disabled pupils and those with special educational needs who are supported by school action is above average. A slightly below-average proportion of pupils are supported by school action plus or have a statement of special educational needs.

The school meets the current floor standard, which is the government's minimum expectation for pupils' attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics at the end of Year 6. The majority of classes are mixed-age classes. The proportion of pupils entering the school roll at other than the usual starting points is above average.

A breakfast club and an after-school care club are run by the governing body and provided for pupils during term time. A setting for under-threes is on site. This is managed separately, and was not part of this inspection.

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