Nancledra School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Pupils enjoy school.

They are keen to learn and make good progress as they move through the school. Pupils reach above average levels of attainment at the end of Year 6 in reading and writing. The headteacher's enthusiasm for mathematics ensures achievement in that subject is particularly good.

Pupils' achievement is good. Teaching is typically good across the school and ensures that all pupils achieve well from their different starting points. Teachers possess secure subject knowledge which they use to set work that accurately supports or challenges pupils to learn.

Staff provide a stimulating range of activities and experience...s which contribute effectively to pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. All pupils are valued, known as individuals and helped to become confident learners because adults treat them with respect and offer high-quality care. As a result, pupils feel safe at all times and behave well.

Provision in the Early Years Foundation Stage and that for disabled pupils and those with special educational needs are strengths within the school. Leaders and governors have successfully addressed areas for improvement identified at the previous inspection. The headteacher has high expectations for pupils' achievement and tracks their progress effectively.

Governors have a good understanding of the strengths of the school and the challenges it faces. They meet regularly with teachers and as a result, governors know the school well. It is not yet an outstanding school because: Work to check on the quality of teaching and the impact of school improvement plans is not evaluated rigorously by the headteacher or shared in sufficient detail with governors.

A system for governors to provide challenge and hold the headteacher to account for the quality of teaching and pupils' achievement is not fully embedded within the school. Teachers' written comments to pupils in their books do not always make clear to pupils what they need to do to improve their work further and pupils are not given time regularly to reflect and respond.

Information about this school

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

The large majority of pupils are from White British backgrounds. The proportion of disabled pupils and those with special educational needs is above the national average. A few pupils are eligible for the pupil premium (additional government funding which supports pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and those looked after by the local authority).

This is below the national average. Children in the early years and pupils in Year 1 are taught full time in the same classroom, sometimes together, sometimes separately. Pupils are able to access a school breakfast club.

An independently managed pre-school is located on the school site. It did not form part of this inspection. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for attainment and progress in English and mathematics by the end of Year 6.

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