Wheatlands Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

The headteacher, staff and governors have been successful in bringing about improvements in teaching and learning since the previous inspection. Pupils' good behaviour, their positive attitudes to learning and the way they are kept safe together make a real contribution to the life of this happy school. Teaching is consistently good and sometimes outstanding.

Teachers plan lessons that interest pupils and keep them keen to learn. Children get off to a good start in the Early Years and are ready for Year 1 when they leave Reception Good progress continues throughout the school, especially in Key Stage 2. By the end of Year 6 pupils reach ...standards that are above average in English and mathematics.

Pupils' progress is particularly strong in reading, grammar and mathematics. Governance of the school is strong and effective. Governors share the same high expectations as the staff and are ambitious for the school to improve further.

Pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is good, because the curriculum gives them ample opportunities to experience art, music and other cultural aspects of life in Britain today. They are encouraged to take on responsibilities and as a result, they grow into capable and confident young people. It is not yet an outstanding school because : In Key Stage 1 planning does not ensure that learning from one year is not repeated in the next and so pupils do not move on to new learning quickly enough.

In some literacy lessons teachers do not insist that pupils make the improvements to their work that they suggest when marking, nor do pupils have the time to make these improvements. As a result, the rate of progress in writing is not as rapid as it is in other subjects.

Information about this school

This is much larger than the average-sized primary school.

The proportion of disadvantaged pupils who are eligible for the pupil premium is below average. The pupil premium is additional funding for pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and those looked after by the local authority. The proportion of pupils supported through school action is below average.

The proportion of pupils supported at school action plus or by a statement of special educational needs is below average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for pupils' achievement in English and mathematics at the end of Year 6. There have been a number of changes in staffing, including at a senior level, in recent years.