Princethorpe Infant School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

The headteacher leads the school well and provides a clear sense of direction. Senior staff have an accurate view of the school's strengths and weaknesses and successfully lead improvements in teaching and pupils' achievement. Teaching is good.

Teachers and teaching assistants work closely together to engage pupils' interest. This helps the pupils to enjoy their learning and achieve their targets. Pupils' achievement is good.

They reach broadly average standards in reading, writing and mathematics by the time they leave the school. This represents good progress in relation to their starting points in the Nursery. Pupils have pos...itive attitudes to reading and have opportunities to read widely and often.

Disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs and those who are at risk of falling behind achieve well because support is tailored to their individual needs. The school provides excellent pastoral support. Relationships between staff, pupils and their families are very positive and as a result, pupils feel very safe and well cared for.

Behaviour is good and pupils get on very well with each other. Provision for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is a strong feature of the school. Governors have a good understanding of the school and provide a balance of support and challenge to senior leaders.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : Lessons do not include enough opportunities for pupils to apply all the skills they are taught through practical learning activities and to carry out their own investigations. Boys sometimes do not learn as well as girls because lessons do not keep them actively engaged for enough of the time. The school improvement plan does not provide detailed enough steps for judging the effectiveness of actions taken to improve the curriculum.

Teaching staff are not as confident in supporting pupils' learning in mathematics as they are in reading and writing.

Information about this school

This school is an average-sized infant school. A high proportion of pupils are supported by the pupil premium (the additional government funding for pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and those in local authority care).

The proportions of pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds and those who speak English as an additional language are broadly average. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs supported at school action plus, and those with a statement of special educational needs is above average. The proportion of pupils supported through school action is broadly average.

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