Windmill Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. The headteacher, leaders and managers provide good leadership.

They receive effective support from the academy trust and the academy advisory board in raising achievement and improving teaching. Pupils behave well and rightly feel safe in the academy. They are aware of how much the academy has improved and realise that this is helping them to make better progress now.

Provision in the early years is good and children make good progress. The proportion reaching a good level of development is above average so that children are prepared well for the move to Year 1. Most pupils are making at least the expected amount of progress at Key Stage...s 1 and 2.

Good teaching has enabled many pupils to make rapid progress in filling previous gaps in their learning. This has enabled them to reach broadly average standards by the end of Year 6. The curriculum is good.

It promotes pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and their awareness of British values well. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Teachers do not always communicate high enough expectations to pupils about their written work, particularly when they work in pairs at Key Stage 2. Some pupils' handwriting reduces the overall quality of their work.

In guided reading sessions at Key Stage 2, pupils who work with the teacher or a teaching assistant sometimes make more progress than those whose work is not directly supervised. Teachers have not all had the opportunity to observe outstanding teaching and learning in order to improve their own practice. Children in Reception do not have such good learning opportunities when they are in the mixed-age class with pupils in Year 1 as when they are in the class with children of their own age.

Information about this school

Windmill Primary School became an academy on 1 May 2013. It is sponsored by The Education Fellowship. The academy is an average-sized primary school.

Children in the Reception Year attend full time. Most pupils are of White British heritage and very few pupils speak English as an additional language. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils eligible for pupil premium funding is average.

This funding is for pupils in the care of the local authority and those known to be eligible for free school meals. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is average. The academy meets the government's current floor standards, which set minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics at the end of Year 6.

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