A Summary of the Key Strengths of the School - OFSTED 2019
As you read the report you will see that the strengths of the school include:
- A clear vision that makes the school a very safe, happy and welcoming place in which pupils learn well
- Leaders successfully motivating staff to share their determination
- Established effective systems for holding teachers to account
- Pupils currently in the school making strong progress in reading, writing and mathematics
- Academic standards have risen over the last 3 years for all subjects and groups of children
- Governors are passionately committed to the life of the school and share the headteacher’s vision to improve outcomes for pupils
- Teachers’ strong subject knowledge
- High quality training for teachers
- Pupils talking of their aspirations for the future and having excellent attitudes to learning
- A culture of high expectation
- A wealth of opportunities for children across the curriculum
- Teachers appreciating the support and training they receive from subject leaders
- Pupils with SEND making strong progress
- Pupils saying that they feel very safe in school and their parents and carers agree with this view
- Teachers’ having high expectations and clear explanations ensuring that pupils settle quickly to work
- Teachers’ skilful questioning to check pupils’ understanding
- The overwhelming majority of parents who responded to Ofsted’s Parent View questionnaire agreed that they receive valuable information from the school about their child’s progress
- Leaders and governors have established a range of important measures to ease the transition for pupils when they transfer at the end of key stage 1
- Pupils develop spiritually, morally, socially and culturally through a wide range of activities that leaders provide
- Children are extremely proud of their school
- Pupils rarely miss a day at school
- Pupils currently in school read widely and often and with confidence and enjoyment
- Teaching routinely promotes the development of pupils’ vocabulary and this is reflected in work books of current pupils
Of special interest to parents is the following judgement:
The school’s work to promote pupils’ personal development, behaviour and welfare is OUTSTANDING.
The above includes the following strengths:
- Strong relationships at all levels
- Children being confident and resilient learners
- Children having excellent attitudes to learning with high levels of concentration
- Children understanding the link between hard work and success
- An extremely open school culture which prioritises pupils’ safety and welfare
- Pupils’ outstanding behaviour and impeccable conduct
- High expectations of behaviour
- Children having faith in their teachers and know exactly what to do if they need help
- Bullying is quickly dealt with
- Effective safeguarding practice