Tiptree Heath Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The headteacher, ably supported by the governing body, has created a strong and improving culture of good teaching, learning and behaviour across the school. As a result, the school is much improved since the previous inspection. Leaders have managed teachers' performance very well.

This has helped to bring about improvements in pupils' progress, particularly in reading and mathematics. Governors understand their roles fully. They challenge leaders to achieve good outcomes for pupils and continually look for ways to improve the school.

Pupils love learning. They are happy and feel safe. This view is fully supported by their parents.
<...br/>Pupils' behaviour is good. They are very proud of their school. Pupils show enthusiasm and commitment when learning.

Children have a good start to school life in the Reception class. They enter Year 1 with the skills they need to be successful learners. Teaching, learning and assessment have improved considerably.

The quality of teaching is checked regularly. Extra training is used effectively so that teaching is good and pupils are doing well. Teachers, together with their learning support assistants, form effective teams who meet pupils' needs well.

Pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is fully supported through a well-designed and exciting range of subjects. Core values, such as responsibility, are embedded into school life and practised by adults and pupils alike. These values underpin all that the school does.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : Teachers do not all recognise quickly enough when pupils are ready to move on in their learning. The most-able pupils do not have enough opportunities to develop the ability to write at length across all subjects. Questions are not always sufficiently probing enough for teachers to know how to help pupils improve.

Information about this school

This school is smaller than the average-sized primary school. Most pupils are White British. No pupils speak English as an additional language.

The proportions of disabled pupils and of those who have special educational needs are below average. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils who receive support from pupil premium funding is below average. The pupil premium is extra funding to support pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals and those looked after by the local authority.

The school meets the government's floor standards, which are the minimum expectations set for pupils' attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics at the end of Year 6. Since the previous inspection, the school received two monitoring visits by Ofsted to determine how much progress it was making in meeting its areas for improvement. Since the last inspection there have been a high number of changes in the staff.