Twin Sails Infant and Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. The headteacher provides strong leadership for the school and conveys ambition and high expectations to pupils and staff.

Senior leaders, subject leaders and other members of staff work well together to ensure that teaching is good and that pupils achieve well. Leaders and members of staff take effective steps to bring about improvement where needed. Governors have a good understanding of the school's performance.

They are supportive and hold leaders to close account. Pupils enjoy school and have positive attitudes to learning. They behave well in lessons and around the school.

Procedures to ensure that pupils are safe are outst...anding. As a result, pupils feel safe and very well looked after by adults. Pupils are caring, friendly and kind.

They show consideration and respect for others, and relate positively to them. They are well prepared for life in modern Britain. Teachers' clear explanations and effective use of questioning promote good learning.

Teaching assistants contribute well to pupils' learning. Children in the Nursery and Reception classes have a good start to school life. In Reception, they make good progress in all the areas of learning.

Children in the Nursery make outstanding progress. Pupils make good progress in Years 1 and 2 in reading, writing and mathematics. Attainment by the end of Year 2 is above average in reading and average in writing and mathematics.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : In a few lessons, work is not set at the right level of difficulty for the different groups of pupils, particularly the most able. There are inconsistencies in pupils' handwriting, use of punctuation and presentation of written work. For some pupils, their ability to recall and apply their mathematical knowledge rapidly and accurately is not as well developed as it should be.

Information about this school

This is a much-larger-than-average-sized primary school. Most of the pupils are White British. There is a below average proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language.

A few of these are at an early stage of learning English. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is below average. A broadly average proportion of pupils is eligible for the pupil premium.

The pupil premium is additional funding for looked after children and those known to be eligible for free school meals. Children in the Nursery attend either for mornings or for afternoons. The children in the Reception classes attend full time.

Some children start in Reception having been to other local pre-school settings. Twin Sales Infant was previously known as Hamworthy First School and Nursery. It was renamed in September 2013 when it changed from a first school to an infant school.