Bramfield is currently a voluntary controlled primary school governed by an interim executive board. On 1 August 2016, the school is due to become an academy, sponsored by St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Diocesan Multi-Academy Trust. The governing body was stood down following the last inspection. The local authority appointed an interim executive board (IEB) that met for the first time in July 2015. The four members of the IEB have remained the same since this time. The school was, until recently, part of a federation of four schools, led by an executive headteacher. The federation is currently being dissolved and the headteacher of St Mary’s Church of England Primary School in Woodbridge became interim executive headteacher at Bramfield on 11 April 2016. St Mary’s is also a member of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Diocesan Multi-Academy Trust. The school is led, on a day-to-day basis, by a head of school. The substantive interim executive headteacher retired at the end of the summer term 2015. An interim executive headteacher took up his post at the beginning of the new academic year but left the school in February 2016. Bramfield is smaller than the average-sized primary school. The school has four mixed-age classes. Children join the Reception class in the September after their fourth birthday and attend full time. The proportion of pupils who are eligible for the pupil premium is lower than the national average. The pupil premium is additional government funding for pupils who are eligible for free school meals and those in the care of the local authority. Most pupils are White British. Few pupils speak English as an additional language. The proportion of pupils who have special educational needs or disability is similar to the national average. However, a higher than average proportion have a statement of special educational needs or an education, health and care plan. The school met floor standards in 2015. These are the minimum standards, set by the government, for pupils’ attainment and progress. The school meets requirements on the publication of specified information on its website. Inspection report: Bramfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, 25–26 May 2016 7 of 9 Information about this inspection This inspection was scheduled as the third monitoring inspection, under section 8 of the Education Act 2005, following the judgement that the school had serious weaknesses in January 2015. The inspection was deemed a section 5 inspection under the same Act in response to evidence of the school’s continued improvement. The inspector gathered a range of evidence to judge the quality of teaching and learning over time. The inspector observed parts of eight lessons, some jointly with the interim executive headteacher and some with the teaching and learning lead. The inspector looked at the work in pupils’ exercise books, listened to them read and talked to them about their work. The inspector scrutinised the school’s assessment information, records of leaders’ monitoring of the quality of teaching and other school documents. The views of parents were taken into account, including 29 responses to Parent View, Ofsted’s online questionnaire, and the comments made by approximately 20 parents who attended a meeting with the inspector. Meetings were held with pupils, staff, a member of the interim executive board, parents and a representative of the local authority.