Neroche Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an outstanding school.

The quality of teaching is outstanding and has improved immensely since the last inspection. The introduction of new teaching staff to the school has resulted in pupils achieving exceptionally well, especially in literacy, including reading, and mathematics, and they make outstanding progress. Pupils are very well prepared for the next stage of their education.

Pupils' attitudes to learning are exemplary and their behaviour is outstanding. Pupils work hard in lessons, feel extremely safe and display a high level of respect for others. The school has developed a curriculum which mixes different subjects together very well in order... to make learning interesting and enjoyable.

It provides pupils with a wealth of learning experiences. Literacy lessons, music and a wide range of sporting activities feature highly when pupils talk about the things they most enjoy about school. The overwhelming majority of parents and carers believe that their children are happy at the school, very safe and well looked after.

All the parents and carers who talked to the inspector were full of praise for the school and correctly believed that their children were making excellent progress. Leadership and management are outstanding and have improved greatly since the last inspection. This has been an important factor in improving the school's overall effectiveness.

The headteacher, staff and governors are working very well together to ensure that the school maintains these improvements. The governing body provides the school with a very effective level of support. Governors are fully involved in the life of the school and are confident enough to ask the headteacher and staff challenging questions about the effectiveness of the school.

Information about this school

This is a smaller-than-average-sized primary school. Nearly all the present teaching staff have been appointed to the school since the last inspection. Most pupils are taught in mixed age group classes, the exception being pupils in Year 6.

Nearly all pupils attending the school come from a White British background. The proportions of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs supported at school action, school action plus or have a statement of special educational needs are below average. These needs include moderate learning difficulties and behaviour, social and emotional difficulties.

The proportion of pupils known to be eligible for the pupil premium (additional funding from the government for groups of pupils including those known to be eligible for free school meals, children who are looked after by the local authority and the children of service families) is well below average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in Year 6. There is an after-school club on the school site.

It is not managed by the governing body and therefore did not form part of this inspection