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This is a good school. The school leadership's determination and drive have successfully improved teaching and learning since the previous inspection. Standards are rising as a result of good and sometimes outstanding teaching and pupils achieve well.
In the pupils' words, 'teachers make learning fun in this school'. The practice of bringing different subjects together in 'adventures' fosters a love of learning and a sense of wonderment in pupils as they find additional things out for themselves. Pupils feel safe and well-cared for.
They are proud of how well they are doing. They appreciate the 'tickets to success' that show them how to get better and better. ...The pupils' good behaviour ensures that learning proceeds uninterrupted in lessons and that play and lunchtimes are happy, social occasions.
Governors know the school well. They monitor its work and challenge it to do even better. They use training opportunities effectively to give them the skills to do these things.
It is not yet an outstanding school because : There is not enough outstanding teaching to enable pupils in all year groups to make rapid progress at all times. Teachers do not have enough opportunities to observe and learn from the best practice in the school. Pupils are not given sufficient opportunities to write at length in literacy or in 'adventures' sessions.
Pupils do not know their tables or number facts well enough to help them calculate rapidly in mathematics. School improvement and subject action planning does not focus sufficiently on outcomes for the pupils.
Information about this school
The school is larger than the average-sized primary school.
Very few pupils come from minority ethnic backgrounds and/or speak English as an additional language. The proportion of pupils for whom the school receives additional funding, known as the pupil premium, is below average. In this school the funding is for children in local authority care and pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals.
The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs, who are supported through school action, is average. The proportion supported at school action plus, or who have a statement of special educational needs, is above average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress.
There have been several staff changes since the previous inspection, including at management level. Privately-run before- and after-school clubs, and a pre-school group known as the 'JB Tots', operate on the school premises. They are inspected separately.
