Rosedale Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Teaching, learning and assessment are good.

Teachers and teaching assistants form good relationships with the pupils. They make sure that pupils are clear about what they are to learn and know how well they are doing. Leadership and management are effective.

Leaders and governors have managed the growth of the school well. They are clear about what remains to be done to make the school even better. Leaders are having a positive impact on the school and it is improving.

The quality of teaching is developing and pupils' outcomes are rising. Leaders, including governors, are ambitious and have high aspirations for the pupils. Pupils...' personal development, behaviour and welfare are good.

Pupils feel safe at school and are knowledgeable about how to stay safe, including when using the internet. Pupils' behaviour is good. They enjoy school and take care with their work, as shown in their writing.

Outcomes are good. Pupils make good progress across the curriculum from their starting points. Attainment is best in writing.

Pupils take great care with their grammar, punctuation and spelling. The early years provision is good. Children are supported especially well in developing social and language skills.

Pupils do less well in reading than in writing. The ability to understand the meaning of what they have read is an area of relative weakness. Leaders have yet to secure consistency in teaching to ensure that pupils are provided with sufficient challenge, especially in mathematics.

Information about this school

Rosedale Primary School is larger than the average-sized primary school. The school opened in 2011 with just Reception Year children. Pupil numbers have risen as new year groups have been added.

This is the first year that the school has had a Year 6. There is a Nursery and two Reception Year classes in the early years provision. Pupils come to the school from a wide range of cultural backgrounds, with most being of Asian, White British or Asian British heritage.

The proportion of pupils speaking English as an additional language is high, but only a few are at the early stages of learning to speak English. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is broadly average and the proportion of pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities is also average. The school runs a breakfast- and after-school club for pupils at the 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. The school works closely with the other schools in the Rosedale Hewens Academy Trust.

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