Savile Park Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Senior leaders have brought about improvements in the school's performance following some slippage. Outcomes for pupils have steadily improved over the last few years.

Teaching is largely effective. As a result, most pupils currently in the school are making good progress overall in a wide range of subjects. However, the quality of teaching, learning and assessment is not entirely consistent in quality in all classes and subjects.

This results in progress that is not as strong for a small minority of pupils. In writing, some of the least able pupils do not make the rapid progress that would help them to catch up. Too few of the least able... pupils reach the expected standard in early reading.

In mathematics, occasionally the most able pupils are not challenged enough. Well-managed support for the high number of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) in this inclusive school helps them to participate fully and make good progress. Leaders ensure that pupils receive a broad and balanced curriculum.

Pupils develop considerable knowledge in a wide range of subjects. An extensive menu of enrichment activities stimulates learning and broadens pupils' horizons. Senior leaders have developed middle leaders' skills, so they make an increasingly positive contribution to improvements in the quality of the curriculum.

Leaders have begun work to further sharpen the curriculum so that content is sequenced in a way that helps pupils to make more substantial and sustained progress in every subject. Work is ongoing. Provision for the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils is strong.

This contributes to the maintenance of a safe, cohesive school community. Pupils' behaviour and attitudes to school are good. Effective leadership of the early years results in good-quality teaching, learning and assessment.

As a result, children, including the most vulnerable, make good progress. Conscientious governors keep a close eye on all aspects of school life. They hold leaders to account.

The governing body occasionally becomes a little mired in detail, drawing attention away from the highest priorities. Leaders' ambition for pupils sometimes causes them to try to juggle too many priorities at once. This results in some improvements not being as rapid as they might be.

Information about this school

Savile Park Primary school is located on two sites a little over half a mile away from each other. One building accommodates pupils from Reception to Year 6, the other accommodates pupils from Reception to Year 4. By 2021, every year group will have two classes.

The school is larger than the average-sized primary school. The proportion of pupils eligible for the pupil premium is broadly in line with the national average. The percentage of pupils with SEND who have an education, health and care plan is well above the national average.

The proportion who speak English as an additional language is well above the national average. The large majority of pupils are of Pakistani heritage. About one in five pupils are white British and a small minority are from various minority ethnic groups.