Kings Furlong Junior School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this school?

Pupils enjoy coming to this inclusive school.

Pupils benefit from the school's high ambitions and expectations. They enjoy learning new things and are eager to share their knowledge. Pupils achieve well due to ongoing improvements made by leaders in the school.

As a result, pupils are remembering more of what they have been taught.Pupils behave well. The school is a happy place to be.

Pupils enjoy attending and are motivated to learn. They have warm, mutually respectful relationships with everyone in the school. Staff help pupils to recognise their emotions so that they can manage them successfully.

Pupils show consideration towards each other. A sen...se of kindness permeates the school. This leads to social times being harmonious because pupils take care of each other and their environment.

Pupils benefit from a wide range of opportunities to take on responsibility and support each other. This helps them to develop empathy for others. For example, 'young interpreters' ensure pupils new to learning English get the support they need to settle at the school.

This also includes well-being ambassadors, who work with staff to think about ways to aid mental and physical health in the school.

What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?

The school acts decisively to raise standards and embed change. Thus, the school continues to improve.

There is a shared vision and a strong culture. Therefore, staff are positive about the school's continued journey of improvement. There is a strong culture of staff sharing expertise and helping each other.

Everyone works well together to make sure that changes impact positively on pupils. Staff value the actions taken to help them to manage their workload and well-being.The school's well-sequenced curriculum sets out the small steps of knowledge that pupils need to learn.

Staff have strong subject knowledge. This helps them to explain and model ideas well to pupils. Staff support pupils to address any mistakes or misunderstandings they may have.

The school prepares pupils well for their next steps in learning at each key stage. However, in some subjects the school does not check what pupils know and understand well enough. This means that pupils in these subjects do not achieve as well as they could.

There is a clear ambition for pupils, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), to achieve well. The school quickly identifies pupils' individual needs. This means adaptations in lessons for pupils with SEND are linked well to their individual needs across the curriculum.

As a result, pupils with SEND achieve well.Reading is prioritised highly. Staff are well trained to help any pupils who struggle.

Catch-up activities give pupils the valuable practice they need. Pupils learn to become fluent and confident readers, enjoying a range of fiction and non-fiction books. The school is now ensuring that staff show pupils how to use their reading knowledge in their writing.

This is helping pupils to produce more accurate writing than they did previously. This success is also seen in mathematics. The school has revised its approach to ensure that pupils master essential mathematical concepts more securely.

Pupils now apply their skills adeptly to solve advanced problems and investigations.Pupils focus well on their learning. Staff apply the school routines and procedures consistently, based around the school's expected learning behaviours.

The school works effectively with parents and carers and external agencies. This helps pupils who need support to improve their behaviour. For example, pupils learn how to adapt their behaviour in different situations effectively.

The school checks pupils' attendance rigorously. When attendance dips, the school acts swiftly to address this. As a result, pupils' attendance has improved, particularly for disadvantaged pupils and those who speak English as an additional language.

During personal, social and health education lessons, pupils learn about important issues such as how to keep safe online. They understand about protected characteristics and the importance of not discriminating against others, for example because of their race. Pupils also benefit from the wide range of visitors to the school.

They help pupils to understand more about the world around them. For example, police and fire safety officers come to speak to pupils about the local community.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

What does the school need to do to improve?

(Information for the school and appropriate authority)

• In some subjects, the school does not check effectively whether pupils have remembered previously taught knowledge. This means that pupils do not achieve as well as they could in these subjects. The school needs to ensure that systems are in place to check pupils' understanding so they can build and connect knowledge over time.

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