Kingston Park Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

Pupils are highly respected and valued. They are involved in all aspects of school life. As a result, their behaviour is excellent, they are consistently polite, thoughtful and very caring, and feel very safe.

Pupils, from a wide range of backgrounds and with very differing needs, work extremely well together. Pupils make good progress from their starting points, although this is not yet consistent throughout the school in all subjects. In 2012, the proportion of Year 6 pupils who reached the expected standard was higher than the national average.

Currently, more pupils make more rapid progress in mathematics than in writing. Pu...pils in the Additionally Resourced Provision make exceptional progress because those adults working with them have a detailed knowledge of each pupil's needs and work hard to ensure that these are met. Teaching is good overall and the school's leaders are focused on increasing the proportion of outstanding lessons.

Pupils are enthusiastic, hardworking and love learning. Those pupils who speak English as an additional language receive high quality support and as a result make outstanding progress. The curriculum provides a wide range of activities and opportunities.

All pupils are actively encouraged to participate in sport and in music. Everyone is proud of the successes achieved in these fields. Leaders and managers, including the governing body, have a relentless focus on pupils achieving their best and in improving the quality of teaching.

They are very successful in improving rapidly most aspects of the school's performance. It is not yet an outstanding school because : The improvement in the proportion of Key Stage 2 pupils making better than expected progress in writing is not as rapid as in other areas, particularly in mathematics. In Key Stage 1, too few pupils attain more than the expected standard.

Occasionally, the work pupils are given is too repetitive and not presented in an interesting enough way.

Information about this school

This is a larger than average size primary school. The school is additionally resourced to offer places for up to 10 pupils with complex physical and medical needs.

These pupils are all included into mainstream classes. The proportion of pupils supported by school action is lower than average. The proportion of pupils supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is also lower than average.

The proportion of pupils known to be eligible for the pupil premium is lower than average. The pupil premium is the additional funding for those who are known to be eligible for free school meals, children from service families and those children who are looked after by the local authority. The proportion of pupils from ethnic minority groups is similar to that found nationally; however, the proportion of pupils whose first language is believed to be other than English is higher.

The largest single group are pupils from Saudi Arabia whose parents are studying or working in Newcastle. Pupil mobility is higher than average. This is linked to the number of overseas families coming to England to study and work and also to a large proportion of pupils being admitted throughout Key Stage 2.

In 2013, only 60% of Year 6 had been at the school from the Reception Year onwards. The school has had a change of headteacher since the last inspection. The school runs a breakfast club from 7.

30am each morning. The school is a member of the Newcastle North West Learning Trust which came into being on the 1 September 2013. The school meets the government's current floor targets which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress.