Stoke Bishop Church of England Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Key findings

Stoke Bishop is a good school, where pupils achieve well.

Parents and carers value highly its supportive ethos, community spirit, and the emphasis given to pupils' personal development, as well as their academic progress. The school is not yet outstanding because not all teaching is of the very high quality that is needed to make sure that pupils always make the best possible progress in their learning. School development plans lack sufficiently challenging, measurable targets to take performance further forward.

Pupils make good progress. The Early Years Foundation Stage gives children a strong start to their education. By Year 6, attainment in English and mathematics is above average and mos...t pupils reach high standards in reading.

Pupils are well prepared for the next stage in their education. Teaching is typically good and occasionally outstanding. Not all teaching is equally effective because objectives in lessons are sometimes too broad and the guidance given to pupils does not always pinpoint exactly what they need to do to move on to the next level.

Pupils behave very well. Their parents and carers have few concerns about behaviour and are unanimous in agreeing that pupils are safe and well looked after. Pupils are keen to learn and typically work hard in lessons.

Attendance is high. Leaders and the governing body have taken effective steps to sustain good teaching and to boost pupils' progress, including by setting more challenging targets for teachers as part of their performance management arrangements. Whole-school targets in the school's current improvement plan are not demanding enough to ensure swift progress towards outstanding outcomes for pupils.

More challenging targets are being drawn up in the school's current cycle of self-evaluation and forward planning.

information about their attainment and progress, minutes of meetings of the

governing body, and procedures for keeping pupils safe. Inspectors took account of the responses included in questionnaires returned by 148 parents and carers, as well as others completed by 150 pupils and 18 members of staff.

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