Ofsted have rated Summerfields Primary School in Newport as ‘Good’ in all areas.
The latest inspection took place in November 2014 and praises the headteacher for successfully eliminating inadequate teaching at the school.
Other highlights from the report include:
- Senior leaders and governors support the headteacher well in her efforts to maintain an effective school with good teaching and achievement and to improve it further.
- A dip in standards in Years 1 and 2 has been rigorously addressed and standards are now rising again rapidly. By Year 6 pupils reach above average standards in reading, writing and mathematics. Pupils read particularly well.
- All groups of pupils make good progress from their various starting points as a result of consistently good and sometimes outstanding teaching.
- Well-organised support for pupils who find learning difficult and those who are disadvantaged ensures that they make the best progress they can.
- Warm relationships and well-organised learning ensure that Reception children make a confident start to school. Effective teaching and support ensure that they make good progress and are well prepared for Year 1.
- The school’s work to keep pupils safe and secure is good. Pupils are respectful and well behaved and get along well together. Bullying is rare. Pupils say that they thoroughly enjoy school and, as a result, their attendance is very good.
- The vast majority of parents that inspectors spoke to during the inspection were very satisfied with the school.
- The staff’s consistent promotion of the school’s values of respect, independence and self-esteem, underpins the strong provision for pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
To become Outstanding
Three items were highlighted as needing to the tackled before the school could be rated as ‘Outstanding’
- Teachers do not always challenge the most able pupils strongly enough.
- Pupils’ attainment is not yet as high as it could be across all year groups, especially in mathematics and writing.
- Leaders of English and mathematics do not yet have all the skills they need to check more rigorously on the quality of teaching and pupils’ progress in their subjects.
The report
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