Meadow Primary School

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About Meadow Primary School


Name Meadow Primary School
Website https://www.themeadowbalsham.co.uk/
Inspections
Ofsted Inspections
Mrs Nichola Pickford
Address High Street, Balsham, Cambridge, CB21 4DJ
Phone Number 01223894400
Phase Academy
Type Academy sponsor led
Age Range 3-11
Religious Character Does not apply
Gender Mixed
Number of Pupils 211
Local Authority Cambridgeshire
Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The headteacher provides highly effective leadership. Alongside her committed and enthusiastic senior leadership team, she has led marked improvements to pupils' achievements and the quality of teaching and learning. The quality of the teaching of reading, writing and mathematics is good.

Teachers plan well together, ensuring that pupils make clear progress across the year groups and key stages. Leaders promote pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development effectively, preparing them to become enlightened citizens in twenty-first century Britain. Governors are well informed about pupils' progress and the quality of teaching, learning a...nd assessment.

Consequently, they hold leaders to account for the standards achieved by pupils. Children achieve well in the early years. Innovative and challenging teaching means that children make good progress from their individual starting points.

Pupils, including those who are disadvantaged, make good progress in most areas of the curriculum. Pupils develop their writing, reading and mathematics skills well in many areas of the curriculum. Pupils enjoy learning and behave well in the classroom.

Pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported well and make good progress. Teaching assistants contribute to this effective support to meet these pupils' individual needs. Teachers develop pupils' language skills, including subject-specific vocabulary, very effectively in all areas of the curriculum.

There are inconsistencies in the quality of science teaching across the key stages. Leaders have strategies in place to address this. All pupils make the progress needed to reach the expected levels of achievement for their age, but the most able pupils, including the most able disadvantaged pupils, are not sufficiently challenged to exceed the expected standards and reach their fullest potential.

Information about this school

The school meets requirements on the publication of specified information on its website. The school complies with Department for Education guidance on what academies should publish. This school is smaller than the average-sized primary school.

The majority of pupils are White British. The proportion of pupils supported by pupil premium funding is below average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in English and mathematics at the end of Year 6.

The proportion of pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities is below the national average. The proportion of pupils with education, health and care plans is below average. The school is a part of the Chilford Hundred Education Trust.

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