New Horizons Children’s Academy

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The headteacher provides strong and effective leadership to this growing school. She is determined to uphold the vision of 'Child first, aspire, challenge, achieve'.

Other leaders, including some who are relatively new to their roles, are having an increasing impact on improving teaching and raising standards. Teaching is improving and is now good overall. Leaders have high expectations of their staff and are tackling the few remaining weaknesses in teaching effectively.

Children make good progress and achieve well in the early years due to effective teaching, especially in the Reception classes. Pupils enjoy coming to school and being wi...th their friends. As a result, the vast majority of pupils attend school regularly.

Behaviour is good. Pupils get along with each other well. Disadvantaged pupils make good progress from their starting points.

Pupil premium funding is used well to help them catch up. Safeguarding is effective. Work to keep pupils safe and to support families is of a very high quality.

Provision for pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities is effective and helps them to make good progress from their starting points. The school provides a wide range of extra-curricular activities which are enjoyed by pupils. Some pupils are not achieving as well as they could because less effective teaching is not meeting their needs.

Children in Nursery do not have the same opportunity as children in Reception to choose to play and learn indoors or outdoors. The curriculum is broad and balanced. However, directors, trust senior executives, governors and school leaders do not have a consistent view of how the curriculum should be further developed to meet the specific needs of boys and girls in this unique school.

Information about this school

The school opened in September 2014 with two classes and has grown rapidly. It now has 14 classes and is larger than the average primary school nationally. The school currently consists of: a Nursery class with separate morning and afternoon groups; three classes in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2; and two classes in each of Year 3 and Year 4.

There are not yet any pupils in Year 5 or Year 6. The school is a sponsored academy which is part of The Thinking Schools Trust. The headteacher joined the school in January 2016 and the deputy headteacher joined the school in April 2017.

The school operates a breakfast club which is open every morning before 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.

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