Woolston Community Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Woolston Community Primary School is much improved.

The effective headteacher, senior leaders and governors are single-minded in their ambitions for the school. The school extends a warm welcome to pupils and visitors. The new building is attractive, colourful and vibrant.

Pupils feel safe and well-supported. Pupils are extremely polite and very well behaved. They are confident, engaging young people.

Provision in the early years is good. Children in the Reception class make good progress and blossom because of the tempting variety of activities both indoors and outside. Pupils achieve well and so standards are rising, particula...rly in Key Stage 1 and in early years.

Pupils are keen to learn because teaching is at least good. They work hard because expectations of their achievement are high. They enjoy gaining knowledge.

Pupils present their work well and take great pride in it. Their work is marked regularly. Good support is provided for all pupils, especially those with special educational needs and in the designated provision.

Parents and their children are very positive about the school's effectiveness. Pupils enjoy coming to school and with parental support they achieve above-average attendance. It is not yet an outstanding school because : In 2014 results at the end of Year 6 were below average in mathematics.

Too few pupils made more than the progress expected of them in mathematics, reading and writing. The quality of teaching is inconsistent in Key Stage 2. Too much work is set at the same level despite the different abilities of the pupils.

Basic skills in mathematics and English are not always built on consistently enough. This sometimes slows down pupils' achievement at the higher levels as they move through school. There are some inconsistencies in the quality of marking and teachers' expectations of pupils to act upon the advice given.

Information about this school

Woolston Community Primary is an average-sized primary school. Children in the Reception class attend full time. The school offers specially resourced provision for pupils with special educational needs in the form of designated provision for eight pupils with autistic spectrum disorder.

The school is newly built in the grounds of the previous school. The vast majority of pupils are of White British heritage. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils eligible for pupil premium funding is below average.

This funding is for pupils looked after by 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 above average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of Year 6.

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