Yorkmead Junior and Infant School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The recently appointed headteacher and his deputy have quickly and effectively turned around a decline in the quality of teaching.

As a result, teaching has improved further since the previous inspection. Teachers know their pupils very well. This means they tailor lessons to suit each individual pupil.

This is why pupils make good progress. Pupils make good progress across the school in a wide range of subjects. As a result, standards are back to where they should be after a dip in recent years.

Children in the early years settle quickly into school life. They are taught well. Consequently, they make good progress in all areas o...f learning.

The school promotes pupils' personal development and welfare very well. Pupils are happy, confident and self-assured. They are becoming well prepared for the responsibilities and opportunities of adult life.

Pupils behave well at all times. They are courteous to adults and to each other. They work hard in lessons and play together happily at breaktimes.

Some aspects of leadership are exceptionally effective. The senior team is highly skilled at bringing about necessary improvements. They identify with pinpoint accuracy what needs to change and work with drive and determination to make it happen.

Subject leaders contribute well to improving the quality of teaching. As a result, outcomes for pupils are good and improving further, particularly in English and mathematics. Other aspects of leadership are not as effective.

For example, governors do not have as detailed a view of the school's effectiveness as they should do. As a result, governors do not challenge senior leaders well enough to hold them sharply to account for the quality of education. Leadership in some areas lacks the same high degree of strategic vision and drive as is shown by the senior team.

Information about this school

The school meets requirements on the publication of specified information on its website. The school is larger than average. Pupils come from a diverse range of ethnic backgrounds.

The majority speak English as an additional language. The current headteacher became acting headteacher in January 2017. He was appointed to the permanent post in April 2017.

The deputy headteacher was appointed to the role from the beginning of this academic year. The school includes a nursery unit for three- and four- year olds. The school meets the current government floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress.