Looe Primary Academy

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school School leaders, local governors and multi-academy trust leaders have taken decisive action to rectify concerns identified in the previous inspection. Consequently, pupils achieve well.

Their progress and attainment are increasingly strong across all subjects. School leaders provide accurate information about strengths and areas for development. This helps governors to hold staff to account and to improve teaching and learning.

As a team, the headteacher and executive headteacher sustain a strong and passionate drive for improvement. The headteacher has moulded a strong team of senior and middle leaders and secured high staff morale. The c...urriculum is well planned and provides pupils with rich and varied learning experiences.

The curriculum captures the pupils' interest and contributes well to their personal and social development. The arrangements for safeguarding and securing pupils' welfare are strong. The school works supportively with parents and carers and this is improving pupils' attendance.

A strong sense of community and a focus on spiritual, moral, social and cultural development enable pupils to understand their place in modern society and have knowledge of British values. Teaching is good. Teachers use their skills well to match learning experiences to pupils' needs and to motivate and develop them as learners.

The most able and disadvantaged pupils are challenged well and make strong progress. Teachers plan thoughtfully to meet the needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). On occasion, their individual learning plans are not used to best effect to enrich learning and progress.

Teachers have improved pupils' ability to write meaningfully and expressively. They recognise that pupils' spelling, punctuation and grammar require further improvement. Teachers set high standards of pupils' work in writing and mathematics books.

They are not as rigorous in securing similar standards of writing in other subjects and books. Pupils behave well and demonstrate good attitudes to their learning. They behave respectfully towards each other and adults.

Relationships are strong and aid learning. Pupils achieve well in the Years 1 and 2 phonics screening checks. However, some pupils do not use their phonic knowledge to improve their reading.

Children in the early years settle quickly into well-established routines. They respond well to effective teaching and make good progress.

Information about this school

Looe Primary Academy is a member of the Bridge Schools Trust.

Governance is undertaken at a multi-academy trust level by a trust board of directors and at school level by members of a local governing body. This academy is broadly average in size. The majority of pupils are from White British backgrounds.

The proportion of pupils with SEND is below average. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is in line with the national average. Children experience early years provision full time in a combined Reception/Year 1 class.