The Green Flying High Academy

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an inadequate school Since the previous inspection, leaders have not sustained good teaching and learning or halted the decline in pupils' achievement.

Subject leaders do not check their areas of responsibility well enough. The proportions of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading and writing at the end of Year 2 and in phonics in Years 1 and 2 have been below the national averages for the last three years. Leaders and other teachers do not have an accurate view of pupils' achievement.

Their assessment processes are unreliable. Teachers do not set work that challenges all pupils. The work in pupils' books shows limited progress in writing and... mathematics.

In writing, teachers' expectations of the quality and quantity of work are not high enough. Handwriting is a weakness for many pupils. Teachers lack subject knowledge.

They do not have a good enough understanding of current curriculum expectations in each year group. Leaders do not use the additional funding effectively to support disadvantaged pupils and pupils who have special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities. Disadvantaged pupils achieve less well than their classmates.

Some pupils do not engage in learning. This results in low-level disruption in lessons and slows the progress of all pupils in the class. Teachers do not use additional adults effectively.

Too often, pupils become over-reliant on these adults, which slows their learning. Children in the early years do not have enough opportunities to develop early writing skills. The activities that they are encouraged to undertake do not always contribute well to children's learning.

The proportion of children who achieved a good level of development in 2017 was below that seen nationally. The school has the following strengths The recently appointed acting headteacher has wasted no time in identifying where improvements are needed and has started to address weaknesses in the quality of teaching. Procedures for safeguarding pupils are effective.

Pupils said that they feel safe.

Information about this school

The school is smaller than the average-sized infant school. The very large majority of pupils are of White British heritage.

The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is average. The proportion of pupils who have SEN and/or disabilities is above average. The governing body has recently appointed a new chair.

The school is currently led by an acting headteacher, who has taken on this full-time role since January 2018. This follows the resignation in December 2017 of one of the co-headteachers, who was not in school during the inspection. The resignation takes full effect from April 2018.