Carisbrooke CoE Primary School has received a glowing review from an Ofsted inspector.
Following a two-day inspection in September, the first full inspection in ten years, Ofsted found the school to be ‘Good’ in all areas of provision, as well as ‘Outstanding’ in personal development.
Highlights from the report include:
- Leaders’ high expectations are well established in the school’s values and in the mantra, ‘to treat everyone with respect’
- Pupils’ personal development is exceptional
- A positive learning culture permeates throughout the school
- Pupils develop a strong understanding of the challenges of social media, and older pupils are keenly aware of how this can affect their own well-being
- Leaders have carefully considered and sequenced the knowledge they want pupils to learn in most subjects
- Subject leaders are experts in their subjects and provide high-quality support for staff
- Well-trained staff deliver the school’s early reading programme effectively
- Assessment information is also used well to accurately identify pupils with SEND
- Pupils say, ‘No-one is lonely in this school.’ They enjoy the active, busy playtimes with their friends
- Pupils waiting at the ‘Friendship Stop’ are quickly ‘scooped up’ into games
- Where pupils are at risk of falling behind, these ongoing checks are used to plan support for them
- Pupils are deeply aware of how their own actions can have an impact on others
- Pupils are encouraged to have a voice in their school, relishing the opportunities to help
- Pupils’ clubs, such as ‘hide and seek’ and ‘glow discos’, are attended well
Read the report
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