Ofsted have this morning released the latest Inspection Report for Dover Park Primary School in Ryde.
Following an inspection earlier this month, they have rated the school as ‘requiring improvement’.
The Inspector acknowledged that during a period of significant change, the headteacher has been been a very strong leader.
Highlights
They found that monitoring and development systems “have improved especially well and the school is rapidly improving”.
Other highlights included:
- The proportion of good teaching is rising well. Consequently the majority of pupils made good progress during this academic year.
- Achievement in reading is good. Disabled pupils and those with special educational needs achieve well. Pupils who receive additional funding to support their progress are now closing the gap on their peers.
- Pupils feel very safe and secure in school because of the good level of care. The support for pupils who might be at risk of underachieving is especially good.
Where improvements can be made
However, the inspector advised that several areas of provision require improvement before the school can be rated as ‘Good’.
- The achievement of pupils requires further improvement. This is because it has been weak in some year groups in the recent past and is not yet good. Pupils are still making up ground in important literacy and numeracy skills.
- Pupils do not always present their work neatly and have insufficient opportunities to write at length. They find it difficult to use their numeracy skills in different situations.
- Teaching requires further improvement because it is not consistently good in all year groups. Some staff are not confident in teaching all aspects of mathematics.
- Lesson activities and marking do not always help pupils to make good progress.
- Pupils’ behaviour for learning is not yet good enough. When teaching is less than good pupils are slow to settle and lose concentration quickly.
- Until recently, systems for checking the school’s work were not robust enough. They
did not provide regular and detailed information that allowed weaknesses to be quickly addressed. - In previous years, monitoring of teaching and learning has not been accurate. This means the school leaders and governing body did not effectively hold staff to account for Pupils’ achievement.
