Turton Belmont Community Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. This is a school where senior leaders, staff and governors know pupils exceptionally well. Together they ensure that pupils achieve well, benefit from a rich curriculum, and are safe and well looked after.

Pupils behave outstandingly well. They enjoy coming to school to learn with their friends. They feel very safe.

Attendance is exceptionally high and they are proud ambassadors for their school. Senior leaders have worked tirelessly to ensure that all areas for improvement from the previous inspection have been successfully addressed and have charted a clear course for the school to be outstanding. Governors are highly skilled and exper...ienced.

They support and hold senior leaders to account in equal measure and bring their considerable experience to the school in order to raise standards for pupils and improve the quality of teaching. Pupils, including children in the early years, benefit from an outstanding curriculum which fully engages their interests in music, visual art, gardening and French, and develops them well as 'model citizens'. Staff promote pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development outstandingly well through the opportunities they provide for them to work together, and learn about various religions and cultures.

Teaching is good. Teachers and teaching assistants work exceptionally well together, they assess pupils' skills and abilities well and plan activities which stimulate them, and fire their imagination. Phonics is well taught.

The proportion of pupils secure in the national phonics screening check (knowledge of letters and the sounds they represent) in 2014 was well above average. Pupils' attainment in reading, writing and mathematics has been well above average for the last five years at the end of Key Stage 1. The progress of the vast majority of pupils is at least good throughout the school in all subjects.

The primary school sports funding is exceptionally well spent. It helps to promote partnerships with other schools, and enables pupils' excellent participation in competitive sports. Early years provision for children in the Reception class is good.

As a result children enjoy school, make good progress and achieve well. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Occasionally, pupils are not challenged to achieve to the very best of their ability. On occasion, opportunities are missed for pupils to develop their problem solving skills across the curriculum.

Information about this school

This is a much smaller than average-sized primary school. The proportion of disabled pupils and those with special educational needs is average and increasing. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils, those supported by the pupil premium funding, is well below the national average.

The pupil premium is additional government funding to support those pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals and those who are looked after by the local authority. Almost all pupils are of White British heritage. A small number are from minority ethnic groups and few speak English as an additional language.

Children in the early years provision attend a Reception class on a full-time basis. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in English and mathematics. Since the previous inspection, three new governors have been appointed and three teachers have joined the school staff.