Staff, pupils and parents at Gurnard Primary School can celebrate today as Ofsted publish the findings of their latest inspection at the school.
The visit on 5th May was the first short inspection carried out since the school was
judged to be good in May 2012.
Inspectors found the school to be ‘Good’ in all areas.
Highlights from report
Full details can be found in the report embedded below, but some of the highlights include:
- Leaders, including governors, communicate a clear strategy for continuing improvement.
- They’ve worked together to lead the school through a difficult but necessary change with determination and resilience, showing the school’s vision of ‘together we learn and grow’ in action.
- Parents recognise change in the school. The majority are positive about the difference the school is making to their children’s achievement.
- Parents say they are impressed with the range of visits and events; they like the strong community ethos and the commitment of adults in the school, who are ‘striving for the best for our children’.
- Leaders have provided high-quality, timely training for staff to improve leadership and teaching.
- Children in the early years make a strong start to key stage 1.
- Teaching strengthened pupils’ understanding, stretching pupils through carefully directed questions to help them explain their solutions and consider other possibilities.
- There are improved opportunities for pupils across key stage 2 to explore high-quality texts so they can look at how authors write effectively.
- Subject leaders make good use of information about the progress pupils make and their checks on the quality of teaching to inform their action planning.
- Governors evaluate the use of additional funding carefully.
- They have challenged and supported leaders’ decisions to change the way that additional support is delivered to pupils.
- Pupils enjoy opportunities to show their leadership such as serving as Young Governors.
- Attendance at school is high. Pupils carefully follow the rules set out by adults.
The report
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