Ravensworth Church of England Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Senior leaders, ably supported by those teachers responsible for subjects, have been resolute in setting a clear direction for just how successful the school can be.

As a result, significant improvement has been made since the previous inspection. The headteacher's highly skilled leadership and management of teaching has energised the staff, enabling pupils of all abilities and needs to achieve well. Good teaching, well organised tasks and effective classroom support for individual pupils, ensures good and sometimes rapid progress in lessons.

The behaviour of pupils is consistently good and is characterised by considerate and sensible at...titudes in and out of lessons. They are willing to work hard and their good spiritual, moral, social and cultural development adds to their successful personal progress. Attendance is high and there are no exclusions.

The school has an accurate view of strengths and areas for continued improvement. The strongly-led governing body are decisive and effective in identifying what needs to be done to achieve their high aspirations for the school. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Rapid progress and high achievement are not yet sustained over time in all subjects.

Occasionally, when progress is a little more variable, tasks are not consistently matched to pupils' age, ability and needs and do not always excite curiosity enough. Sometimes opportunities are missed to enable pupils to apply their skills to solve even more difficult problems, especially in mathematics or present their work in more sophisticated ways. Occasionally, pupils are unclear about how to improve their work quickly.

Information about this school

Ravensworth Church of England Primary School is much smaller than the average-sized primary school. The proportion of pupils known to be eligible for pupil-premium funding (which is provided to support the learning of pupils who are entitled to free school meals, in the care of the local authority or the children of members of the armed forces), though rising, is lower than the national average. The proportion of pupils whose learning needs receive the level of support known as school action is broadly in line with the national average.

The proportion supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is lower than the average. Almost all pupils are White British. A significantly lower than average proportion of pupils is from minority ethnic groups.

None are at an early stage of learning to speak English as an additional language. The school meets the current floor standards, which set out the government's minimum expectations for attainment and progress. An experienced headteacher was appointed as acting headteacher in October 2011 following a period of unsettled leadership.

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