Green Mount Primary School had their latest Ofsted inspection recently. The report was released on Friday (28th March) revealing that improvement is required in three of the four areas assessed.
The report found that the behaviour and safety of pupils was good, but that leadership and management, quality of teaching and the achievement of pupils all ‘require improvement’.
Strengths of the school
The school is not without its strengths, the inspection highlighted the following:
- Good standards in writing are being achieved across the school.
- The quality of teaching is improving quickly because of teachers’ desire to get better so that they can improve outcomes for pupils.
- Positive relationships between adults and children ensure that lessons proceed well and that pupils are now making better progress.
- Pupils have positive attitudes to learning and these are displayed through a keenness on the part of the pupils to engage with their learning.
- The headteacher and senior leaders have clearly identified where improvements are needed and staff speak positively of recent improvements in teaching and the way their performance is measured.
Weaknesses
The inspector goes on to say the school is not good because
- The standards pupils achieve are not high enough in reading and mathematics and their progress in these subjects has not been good enough.
- The work pupils are given is often not challenging enough and too many pupils say that the work is easy.
- Disabled pupils and those with special educational needs do not make good enough progress, as do those students supported through pupil premium funding.
- Teaching is not consistently good across subjects or year groups and does not lead to pupils’ good progress over time.
- Pupils are not always encouraged to act on the advice teachers give to improve their work.
- The roles of middle leaders in the school are not sufficiently clear to allow them to have a significant impact on the standards and progress of pupils in the school.
- Governors have not always been as effective as they should have been in holding the school to account for the quality of teaching and the progress that pupils make.
- Until recently, school leaders have done too little to ensure that the good levels of pupils’ achievement and effective teaching seen in the recent past have been maintained.
Read the report
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