Stockwell Academy

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Strong and effective action has been taken to improve the quality of teaching. Teaching is good overall with some that is outstanding.

Achievement is good. Pupils make good progress from their starting points so that by the end of Year 6 their overall attainment is average. Pupils with special educational needs make good progress.

Pupils who are entitled to the pupil premium make good and often outstanding progress. Their attainment is well above that of their national counterparts and their classmates. Pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is promoted well through the curriculum and well-planned extra-curricular acti...vities Pupils' behaviour is good.

They are proud of their school and show respect and courtesy towards each other and staff. Pupils form good relationships with others and consequently feel safe and happy at school. The headteacher provides highly effective leadership and has created a happy and harmonious school.

He has an ambitious vision which is shared by all staff and governors. The governing body plays an important and successful role in supporting and challenging the school and this is helping the school to continually improve. It is not yet an outstanding school because : The quality of teaching is not yet consistently high enough to ensure that all pupils make outstanding progress.

Work planned for the most-able pupils is not always hard enough. As a result, the proportion of pupils who reach the higher levels of attainment in reading, writing and mathematics is below the national average. In some classes pupils are not encouraged to respond to or reflect on the teacher's marking and feedback and thereby correct errors and misconceptions.

Pupils' work is not always presented neatly.

Information about this school

Stockwell Primary is larger than the average-sized primary school. Since the previous inspection the school has experienced many changes in staffing.

The proportion of pupils supported through school action is well above average. The proportion of pupils supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is well above average. The proportion of pupils known to be eligible for support through the pupil premium (additional funding for those pupils known to be eligible for free school meals, those from service families and those looked after by the local authority) is well above average.

The proportion of pupils from minority ethnic groups or who speak English as an additional language is well below average. The proportion of pupils who join the school other than at the usual time is well above average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for attainment and progress in English and mathematics by the end of Year 6.