Lakeside Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

The school has improved because the headteacher and the governing body have focused successfully on raising standards since the previous inspection. As a result, teaching and learning are good and pupils achieve well, whatever their starting points. Children make a good start in the school.

The proportion of children attaining a good level of development at the end of Reception year is above the national average. The progress pupils make between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 has increased markedly since the previous inspection and is now good. The school encourages pupils to read regularly in school and at home to develop good reading skil...ls.

Any pupils who fall behind are helped to catch up quickly. Leaders and managers have made sure that disadvantaged pupils, as well as disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs, make good progress. Pupils feel happy and safe at school.

Behaviour is good and pupils are polite and friendly. Through activities in lessons and assemblies, pupils have a good knowledge of how to keep themselves safe from harm. The school's work to keep pupils safe is outstanding.

Leaders, managers and governors check the quality of the school's work regularly and identify where key improvements are needed. This has been particularly effective in driving improvements to teaching and pupils' achievement in reading and writing. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Pupils' progress in mathematics is not always as consistently brisk as in reading and writing in Key Stage 2.

The most-able pupils are not always set hard enough tasks to do in mathematics. Pupils are not given enough opportunities to use and apply mathematical skills to real-life problem solving situations. Despite the improvements to writing that have taken place, pupils' spelling skills in some classes are weak.

Pupils are not consistently being given opportunities to use writing skills in other subjects in all classes.

Information about this school

The school is smaller than the average-size primary school. The proportion of pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds is small, as is the proportion speaking English as an additional language.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is lower than the national average. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils who are supported by the pupil premium (additional government funding to give extra support to those known to be eligible for free school meals and to children who are looked after) is above average. The school meets the government's floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of Year 6.

The school provides full-time early years provision for children in a Reception class. More pupils join and leave the school part way through their primary education compared with other schools nationally. There is a pre-school nursery on site which is run independently of the school and inspected separately.