South Wootton Infant School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The headteacher, governors and staff have created a culture where everyone works together to improve pupils' outcomes, teaching, learning and assessment, and pupils' behaviour. Leaders have implemented an exciting curriculum with stimulating displays that engage pupils in their learning.

Governors now challenge school leaders appropriately and make an effective contribution to school improvement. Teaching, learning and assessment are good. Teachers use their strong subject knowledge to develop pupils' learning in a wide range of subjects.

The school engages well with parents. Parents say the school keeps their children safe. They value th...e support pupils receive.

Pupils' standards by the end of Year 2 in reading, writing and mathematics have been significantly above national expectations since the last inspection. All groups of pupils now make good progress from their starting points. The highly effective teaching of phonics underpins the development of early reading and writing.

The early years is a strength of the school. Children benefit from learning in an environment that is well suited to their needs. Pupils are proud of their school.

Their attendance is high and they enjoy coming to school. Pupils' behaviour around school is good and most show positive attitudes to learning. These good attitudes contribute well to their spiritual, moral, cultural and social development.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : Leaders and teachers do not always make full use of the accurate information they collect about pupils' learning to ensure that pupils make accelerated and sustained progress. The most able pupils are not always challenged sufficiently to deepen their understanding further to enable them to reach the higher standards.

Information about this school

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

There is a below-average proportion of pupils from a range of minority ethnic backgrounds. There is a below-average proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language. The proportion of pupils who have special educational needs or disability is well below average.

The proportion of pupils for whom the school receives the pupil premium is well below average. The pupil premium is additional funding for disadvantaged pupils known to be eligible for free school meals or who are looked after by the local authority. Early years provision is full-time for children in the Reception Year.

The school has a breakfast club on-site under the school's governance for infant and junior pupils. There have been a number of new appointments to teaching posts since the last inspection. The school meets requirements on the publication of specified information on its website.

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