Musbury Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Since his appointment in 2018, the head of school, ably supported by senior leaders in the trust, has worked tirelessly to stabilise staffing and improve pupils' outcomes. The governors and the trust are determined to provide pupils with the best possible education. Collectively, they have a clear and detailed understanding of what is working well and what needs to improve further.

Current pupils, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and disadvantaged pupils, are making strong progress in reading, writing and mathematics. Skilled teaching assistants provide effective support for pupils in class and through one...-to-one support, which is helping pupils overcome any barriers they may have to learning. The teaching of phonics is good.

Younger pupils use their phonics knowledge well to help them develop early reading and writing skills. Parents and carers are wholly supportive of the school and hold the leadership and the trust in high regard. Pupils' attendance has improved and is now in line with the national average.

Pupils behave well in school. They are polite and respectful of each other and are keen to follow the school values. There are very few incidents of poor behaviour.

However, where work is not well matched to pupils' abilities, pupils' focus wanders and this slows their progress. Teachers typically plan lessons for mixed-age and key stage classes well. However, teachers do not consistently match reading books well enough to the abilities of lower-attaining pupils.

This hampers their progress. In mathematics, teachers do not provide the most able pupils with sufficient challenge. Consequently, these pupils do not consistently reach their full potential.

Subject leaders are new to their roles. They have not developed their skills fully to be able to drive improvement in their areas of responsibility. The curriculum motivates pupils.

It provides pupils with memorable learning and broadens their horizons. Nevertheless, pupils have limited opportunities to develop mathematics skills beyond calculation and number.

Information about this school

The school is smaller than the average-sized primary school.

Pupils are taught in two key stage classes. Musbury Primary School opened as an academy in September 2017. When its predecessor school was last inspected by Ofsted it was judged to require improvement.

The school is now part of First Federation Trust. The majority of pupils are of White British background. The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is below the national average.

The proportion of pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals is below the national average. The proportion of pupils with SEND or who are supported by an education, health and care plan is above the national average. The head of school and the teaching staff started in September 2018.

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