Sully Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Sully Primary School is a nurturing and vibrant place for pupils, staff and visitors. All pupils and their families receive a sincere welcome. Pupils enjoy coming to school and are proud to be a part of such a reassuring learning environment.

Teachers and support staff are always there to help when needed. The headteacher, teachers and support staff take very good care of the pupils and want them to thrive in learning and in life. They offer pupils an impressive variety of school experiences, all of which help to keep pupils interested and make learning exciting.

The school grounds offer a wonderful environment to extend pupils' learning. However, the school does not always make good enough use of this learning opportunity.... Pupils know that staff expect them to behave well and respect everyone in the school and the community.

The engagement of pupils in their learning, and their excellent behaviour, are notable strengths of the school. Many pupils make good progress and achieve well, especially considering the disruption to their learning caused by the pandemic in recent years. Leaders have identified that teachers need to provide more challenging learning experiences for pupils to improve their progress and independence.

The headteacher provides strong leadership and generally knows the school well. She has identified important areas of the school's work that she wants to improve. This includes improving elements of day-to-day classroom assessment that will help to move pupils on in their learning.

The headteacher values the opinions of staff, pupils, parents and governors, and uses these to improve the school. The current leadership team is relatively new, but members trust each other and work well together to provide good support for colleagues. Recommendations R1 Address the health and safety issue raised during the inspection R2 Strengthen teaching to ensure that it meets the needs of all individual learners R3 Develop pupil independence, including when using the outdoors What happens next The school will draw up an action plan to address the recommendations from the inspection.