Park Hill Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Park Hill Primary School is a caring, compassionate community where its pupils are at the heart of the school. All members of the school community feel welcomed and valued. Leaders, including governors, have responded effectively and swiftly to the areas for improvement identified in the previous inspection.

Consequently, the school has improved. For example, their approach to supporting disadvantaged pupils is resulting in improved outcomes for these pupils. The good quality of teaching and learning is ensuring that the progress pupils make across a range of subjects is improving.

However, the school's good practice is not yet fully embe...dded across the school. As a result, not all pupils, including the most able pupils, make the progress of which they are capable. The headteacher, her senior leaders and governors, have sought and acted on support from other agencies.

They are honest and reflective leaders dedicated to improving standards across the school. Leaders work hard to develop pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. As a result, pupils are well prepared for life in modern Britain.

They have a very good understanding of British values. Leaders have introduced new assessment systems to the school. These are helping teachers to focus more specifically on pupils' progress.

But they are not yet sufficiently developed, or shared across the school, to support middle leaders in evaluating progress. Pupils' attitudes to learning and their behaviour are very positive. They are extremely polite and welcome everyone with respect and care.

The school has a calm and orderly atmosphere where everyone speaks politely to each other. Parents are overwhelmingly happy with the school. They know that their children are safe in school and very well cared for.

They particularly appreciate the support they receive, as families, from the school at difficult times. Many children join the school in the early years with skills below those typical for their age. However, they quickly make good progress from their starting points.

Middle and subject leaders have good subject knowledge and are ambitious for their pupils. However, they are not yet as well versed as they could be in monitoring the quality of teaching and learning in their subject areas. Leaders have started to develop a rich, broad and balanced curriculum that builds on the cultural heritage of the school.

Information about this school

Park Hill Primary is a slightly larger-than-average primary school. Following the local authority's notification that there would be a reduction to admission numbers in 2017, the school will reduce to two-form entry across all years from 2020. The majority of pupils attending the school are of Pakistani heritage.

The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is above the national average. The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is in the top 20% of all schools nationally. Children attend Nursery provision part-time for 15 hours.

The children in the two reception classes attend full-time. The school has a breakfast club which is managed by the governing body and run by school staff. The school is a UNICEF Rights Respecting School and received the UNICEF bronze award in July 2018.

The school does not use any alternative provision. Since the previous inspection in March 2017, leaders and governors have commissioned reviews on the use of pupil premium funding, governance, provision for pupils with SEND and early years provision. They have been supported by a representative of Birmingham Education Partnership commissioned by the local authority.