Wootton Community Primary school had their first Ofsted visit for two years during October.
The outcome of the visit has been published today and reveals the inspection found the school has been rated as ‘Good’ in personal development, behaviour and welfare and their early years provision, but ‘Requires Improvement’ in effectiveness of leadership and management, quality of teaching, learning and assessment and outcomes for pupils.
Ofsted inspectors gave the school an overall rating of ‘Requires Improvement’.
Strengths of the school
The school has the following strengths
- Children get off to a good start in the Reception classes. Most attain well and are well prepared for Year 1.
- Teaching is improving throughout the school. Evidence of effective teaching is emerging at key stage 2, in particular in English.
- Governors check that teaching is improving by robustly questioning leaders. Through regular monitoring, they hold leaders to account.
- Pupils are well cared for. They enjoy a broad curriculum and learn to cooperate together, and learn new talents during activities such as ‘Boom Days’ and ‘University Fridays’.
- Pupils behave well. More pupils make a good contribution to their lessons than in the past and they are proud of this.
Where improvements are needed
Ofsted say this is a school that requires improvement because:
- In 2016 pupils’ attainment in mathematics at the end of key stage 2 was low. Pupils’ rates of progress in mathematics were too slow in 2015 and 2016.
- Teaching is improving but is not yet good. Teachers do not plan tasks which build on what pupils know well enough, in particular at key stage 1.
- Teachers’ expectations of the most able pupils are not high enough. Some of these pupils are not being challenged enough to make more progress.
- Subject leaders are sometimes unclear about what they are aiming to improve. Their evaluations are not always precise enough to guide teachers well.
- Leaders’ analysis of pupils’ progress has not been incisive enough in the past. New systems to help identify pupils who are falling behind are not yet embedded.
- Leaders do not guide teachers effectively in mathematics. Therefore, pupils do not use efficient methods well enough.
The report
Full details can be found in the report below. Click on the full screen icon to see larger version.
