Rushton CofE First School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an outstanding school. The headteacher and governors have successfully maintained a high-quality education for the pupils since the last inspection.

Strong teamwork, led by the headteacher, contributes to the consistently high-quality teaching that pupils receive in both classes. Teachers plan and teach lessons in a way that builds rapidly on what they already know and can do. Marking is very effective.

Pupils make rapid progress throughout the school. Pupils are making progress in reading, writing and mathematics at a much faster rate than usually seen. By the time pupils leave the school at the end of Year 4, many have reached the standard expected a...t the end of Year 6.

Pupils do very well across the full range of subjects the school provides. Pupils' behaviour and application in lessons is excellent. They concentrate fully on the tasks they are set.

Pupils show a great deal of care and consideration for each other. They say they feel safe at school. There is no complacency.

The headteacher and governors want to continue to improve the school. However, their plans for improvement are not focused sharply enough to help them to achieve this.

Information about this school

The school is much smaller than the average-sized primary school.

The pupils are taught in two mixed-age classes. All of the pupils are White British. There are no pupils who are disabled and who have special educational needs at school action (pupils who need extra support with their learning).

The proportion supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is well below average. No pupils are supported through the pupil premium. This extra government funding supports those pupils known to be eligible for free school meals, those children who are looked after by the local authority, and pupils who have a parent serving in the armed services.

The government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in English and mathematics at the end of Key Stage 2, do not apply because pupils leave the school at the end of Year 4. All members of the teaching staff have been appointed since the last inspection. A special educational needs coordinator works at the school for two half days each month.