Mapplewells Primary and Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an outstanding school. Select Aspirational leaders and managers, including governors, have ensured the school has made rapid progress since its last inspection. All pupils achieve well.

All make at least good progress and many make outstanding progress over time. Standards in reading, writing and, in particular, mathematics and English grammar punctuation and spelling, are well above those found in most schools nationally. Nearly all teaching is good and much is outstanding.

Classrooms typically hum with the sounds of busy children. Pupils' attitudes to learning are exemplary. A well-disciplined sense of enquiry and curiosity are instilled in the Early... Years Foundation Stage, and is consolidated and extended thereafter as pupils move through the school.

Pupils' behaviour in classrooms and around the school is exemplary. Pupils are unfailingly well mannered, and enjoy strong relationships with all the adults. They say they feel safe and well looked after.

Their attendance is above average. The headteacher is unswerving in expecting only the very best for each pupil. Staff share this relentless drive for improvement.

Methods for tracking the progress pupils are making are meticulously detailed. However, leaders do not always record their observations of learning in lessons with sufficient rigour. Teachers are helped to become ever better through excellent training.

Consequently, since the last inspection, teaching has improved very strongly.

Information about this school

This school is a little larger than the average-sized primary school. The proportion of pupils supported by the pupil premium is below average.

The pupil premium is additional funding for those pupils known to be eligible for free school meals, children from service families and those children who are looked after by the local authority. Almost all pupils are of White British origin and speak English as their first language. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs supported through school action is broadly average.

The proportion supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is below average. The school meets the government's current floor standard which sets the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment in English and mathematics. The school holds several awards including Investors in Pupils, and recognition as an International School.