Long Meadow School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Strong leadership and management, including by governors, ensure that teaching and pupils' achievement are good and improving. The headteacher provides a clear sense of direction for the school. Governors and members of staff share her determination to make the school even better.

Pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is supported really well, and pupils' learning is enhanced with the addition of interesting visits, visitors and clubs. Pupils thoroughly enjoy coming to school and their behaviour is good. Pupils feel very safe and well cared for.

Teaching is good because teachers provide work for pupils that is interest...ing and purposeful. They form good relationships with the pupils so that the school is calm and harmonious. Children do well in the Reception classes because : members of staff provide them with the right level of support.

All groups of pupils achieve well over time, and their attainment is above average by the end of Year 6 in reading, writing and mathematics. It is not yet an outstanding school because : The progress of pupils is not consistently rapid as teaching is not yet outstanding. Some teachers do not always expect pupils, especially the most able, to move on to hard work quickly enough.

Pupils are not always encouraged enough to improve their handwriting and spelling.

Information about this school

Long Meadow School is much larger than the average-sized primary school. There are two full-time Reception classes in the early years provision.

The majority of pupils are White British, with the others coming from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds. The proportion who speak English as an additional language is high at one in four pupils. Very few are at the early stages of learning to speak English.

The proportion of pupils for whom the school receives the pupil premium is below average at one in eight pupils. This is additional funding for pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and children who are looked after by the local authority. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is below average at one in 12 pupils.

The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics. An above-average proportion of pupils, one in eight, joins or leaves the school other than in the Reception Year. The privately run before- and after-school club that meets at the school did not form part of this inspection.

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