The Meadows Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

evaluation of the school.



• Inspectors met with the headteacher, the deputy headteacher, the assistant headteacher, the special educational needs team and the early years leader? The lead inspector met with four representatives of the governing body, including the chair and vice-chair of governors. She also held a telephone conversation with a representative of the local authority? Inspectors carried out deep dives in the following subjects: early reading, mathematics, science, geography and history. For each deep dive, inspectors met with subject leaders, visited lessons, looked at pupils' work and met with teachers and pupils from the lessons visitedThe lead inspector also listened to pupils reading to a member o...f staff.

• Inspectors checked the school's safeguarding arrangements, including the recruitment checks made on staff. Documentation and records relating to safeguarding were reviewedInspectors spoke to staff about their understanding of their safeguarding responsibilities and to pupils about how safe they felt in school. ? Inspectors observed pupils' behaviour in lessons, in assembly and around the school, including during playtime and lunchtime.

Discussions were held with pupils and staff about their views on behaviour in the school. ? Inspectors considered the responses to Ofsted's online survey, Ofsted Parent View, and the responses to the online survey for staff and pupilsInspection team Caroline Poole, lead inspector His Majesty's Inspector Lynn Corner-Brown Ofsted Inspector Clive Worrall Ofsted Inspector The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments.

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