Excellence at work

“Pupils’ excellent social skills result from staff who give pupils constant opportunities to work together and share ideas with each other”

“The quality of the pupils’ personal development is excellent”

“Pupils’ excellent social skills result from staff who give pupils constant opportunities to work together and share ideas with each other”

Children in the EYFS make excellent progress from their starting points and typically leave the Reception year having fulfilled at least age-related expectations, with the minority of children exceeding these due to the effective teaching that they receive. In the current academic year the majority of children in EYFS have exceeded age-related expectations.

“The contribution of arrangements for pastoral care is excellent. The pastoral guidance provided by the school fulfils its aim for pupils to be caring, considerate and respectful.  Across all aspects of the school’s life, staff provide exemplary pastoral support for pupils; consequently, pupils feel recognised as unique individuals, whose cultural heritages are valued and celebrated. In the EYFS, staff form strong bonds with the children and promote high standards of behaviour and harmonious relationships. Throughout the school, relationships between pupils and staff, and amongst the pupils themselves, are excellent and form the foundation of both the ethos in the school and its quality of care.”

Pupils across the school exhibit notable strong study skills. Children in the EYFS were very observant of the features of their letter formation and sentence writing, and able to identify what they were doing well and what they need to work on. Several children correctly identified that they needed to include ‘speech marks’ and used the term ‘adjective’ accurately and with understanding.