Ramsey Junior School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. A team of determined and capable leaders and governors has secured dramatic improvements in each key aspect of the school's work. All teachers are committed to raising standards further.

Leaders responsible for subjects have ensured pupils complete work that interests them and helps them to move forward. Most pupils enjoy learning, work hard and want to do well. Pupils' conduct around school is good.

Pupils enjoy good working relationships with their peers and with staff, who keep them safe and secure. Teaching has improved dramatically and is now good, because leaders have ensured that clear, and high, expectations are met. Good support... for teachers helps all to increase the impact of their work on pupils' progress.

Throughout the school most pupils are making good, and sometimes exceptional, progress as they work to catch up, or to meet their challenging targets. Leaders' well-designed changes to the curriculum are ensuring the development of pupils' knowledge, understanding and skills across different subjects. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Despite strong recent progress, the legacy of underachievement has resulted in some older pupils still being behind where they could be, particularly in writing and mathematics.

Teachers do not always respond quickly or effectively enough when pupils get stuck or need to move on to more demanding work. A minority of pupils do not try as hard as they might to reach their challenging targets. Some do not always know how they can improve their work.

Pupils' understanding and appreciation of different cultures, and of Britain's democratic parliamentary system, are not good enough.

Information about this school

Ramsey Community Junior School is smaller than the average-sized junior school. The executive headteacher was appointed in April 2013.

She is also the headteacher of Ramsey Spinning Infant School. The two schools formed a 'hard' federation in July 2014. At the previous inspection in July 2013, the school was placed in special measures because it was failing to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education.

This inspection took place during Her Majesty's Inspector's fourth monitoring visit. Most pupils are White British. The proportion of pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds is average.

Few pupils speak English as an additional language. An above-average proportion of the pupils are eligible for the pupil premium. This is additional government funding for pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals, or looked after by the local authority.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs supported through school action is average. The proportion supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is above average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress.