South Moreton Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. The headteacher's clear focus on consistently raising pupils' achievement and aspirations is shared by staff, senior leaders and members of the governing body. Good leadership of teaching and learning together with effective management of teachers' performance has ensured that teaching is consistently good.

Over the past three years standards have risen year-on-year at the end of Year 2 and standards at the end of Year 6 have remained consistently above the national average. All groups of pupils make good progress because work is set at the right level of challenge and good partnerships with parents and carers have a positive impact on pupils' le...arning. The school's caring ethos ensures that everyone is included, pupils feel safe and behaviour is consistently good.

Members of the governing body are knowledgeable about the school and play an active part in making important decisions which drive the school forward. It is not yet an outstanding school because: The proportion of teaching which is outstanding is not high enough to ensure all pupils learn exceptionally well. Pupils are not enthused by writing when they do not understand the purpose for writing and opportunities are sometimes missed to extend pupils' vocabulary.

Teachers do not always make sure pupils know how to improve their work or have the time to make those improvements. Pupils' awareness of the skills they need to help them learn is not as well developed in some classes as it is in others.

Information about this school

South Moreton School is a smaller-than-average sized primary school.

Most pupils come from a White British background; very few are from minority ethnic backgrounds. Very few pupils speak English as an additional language. This is well below the national average.

Very few pupils are known to be eligible for the pupil premium, which is extra funding provided for looked after children, pupils eligible for free school meals and children of service families. This is well below the national average. There are no looked after children in the school.

The proportions of disabled pupils and those with special educational needs who are supported through school action and those who are supported through school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs are well below average. The school met the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in 2012. The school runs a breakfast and after-school club for its pupils.

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