Thurton Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an outstanding school. The headteacher and the assistant headteacher are outstanding leaders.

Their passion for high-quality teaching and relentless drive for all pupils to achieve the highest academic standards are shared by all staff. The governing body demonstrates consistently good practice in fulfilling its core functions and statutory duties and uses its excellent knowledge of the school astutely to shape its future. Teaching is never less than consistently good and much is outstanding.

Pupils receive exceedingly useful feedback on how to improve their written work in English and mathematics. Teachers' marking in other subjects, such as geography... for example, does not always explain how their geographical and technical skills are developing. Well-judged and often inspiring teaching promotes pupils' exceptionally positive attitudes to learning.

Pupils love to learn. Their behaviour is outstanding, as is their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Pupils say that they feel extremely safe in school and staff and parents agree with them.

From their individual starting points children make excellent progress in their Reception Year. They acquire new skills quickly, especially in reading, writing and mathematics, and in their physical and personal development. Pupils' achievement is outstanding.

Their progress across a wide range of subjects including English, mathematics and science is rapid and sustained. Standards in reading, writing and mathematics have risen over time and gaps have closed in disadvantaged pupils' attainment compared to other pupils nationally. The very large majority of parents and carers are entirely satisfied with all that the school provides for their children and find staff approachable.

A very small minority do not share the confidence of these parents in using the school's established systems to put forward their views or to raise concerns.

Information about this school

This school is smaller than the average primary school. Almost all pupils are White British and very few speak English as an additional language.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is below average. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils for whom the pupil premium (additional government funding) provides support is below average. The mobility of pupils (the proportion who join or leave within the school year) is higher than average.

Children in the early years attend full time. The school meets the government's floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' progress and attainment by the end of Year 6. The headteacher is a local leader of education (LLE) and she provides support to other local schools.

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