The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You have only been at the school for 18 months. In that time, you have kept a successful focus on the school’s ethos: ‘Inspiring achievement, today and tomorrow together.’ You have brought this about by raising staff’s expectations of what pupils can achieve both academically and in preparation for their future lives. You have continued to make sure that pupils benefit from a broad and well-considered curriculum underpinned by a wide range of educational visits, visitors and extra-curricular activities. You are ambitious for pupils to develop the many skills and abilities needed to fulfil the school’s mission statement of ‘developing pupils’ twenty-first century skills’. The school’s work to promote pupils’ personal development and behaviour is good. Pupils are confident learners who are well equipped for lessons and settle quickly to their work. Pupils said that their teachers help them to learn and expect them to think hard in lessons. They have thoroughly enjoyed learning about effective approaches to recycling to save the planet. In lessons, we saw hard-working pupils engaged in learning because of the very interesting topics that they are studying. Your approach to undertaking whole-school topics such as learning about the First World War has sparked interest in Year 4 pupils to write poems and prayers about forgiveness. Teachers are respected by pupils, and relationships throughout the school are very warm and enabling. As members of a UNICEF Rights Respecting School, pupils accept one another’s differences. Teachers’ support for pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development permeates all that the school does. Pupils are prepared well for life in modern Britain because staff promote and demonstrate British values across the school. Work in pupils’ workbooks, learning in lessons and your monitoring of teaching and learning show that pupils continue to make good progress and standards are rising across the curriculum. These outcomes are testament to your core belief of putting children at the centre of everything that you do. You are relentless in aiming to give pupils the highest quality of teaching and learning, so that they can improve their life chances. In writing, nearly all pupils attain the expected standard, but some of the most able pupils are not attaining the higher standards of which they are capable. In a short time, you have made many changes that are benefiting the pupils in your care. You have introduced accurate monitoring systems of pupils’ progress, and have trained teachers in acquiring the skills and knowledge required to help pupils achieve well. You have made changes to timetables to maximise learning time, reviewed curriculum planning and ensured that subjects are well resourced. The pace of change has been fast. Generally, parents and carers are positive about the school’s work. Nevertheless, some parents are not yet comfortable about these changes. Their responses to Ofsted’s online survey, Parent View, as well as some of their free-text comments, were not positive about the leadership of the school. You and the governors are aware of this. Plans are in place for the new academic year to improve communication with parents. At the time of the last inspection, the leadership was asked to challenge the most able pupils across the school in reading, writing and mathematics and to improve spelling and the presentation of pupils’ work. In response, you provided training for staff on the skills and knowledge needed for the most able pupils to reach higher standards. This has had a positive impact on reading and mathematics, but less so in writing, where in both key stages, most-able pupils are not being sufficiently challenged. You are continuing to work on spelling and the presentation of pupils’ written work and these are improving. Safeguarding is effective. The leadership team has ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose and that records are detailed and well maintained. The checks on the suitability of staff to work with children are thorough and up to date. All school staff receive timely and high-quality training, to ensure that they are confident in applying the school’s policies and guidance in child protection matters including sexual exploitation. The vast majority of parents responding to Parent View say that they know that their children are safe and well looked after. However, some parents said that the school does not deal effectively with bullying. School records show that all incidents are carefully logged and thoroughly followed up. Pupils said that bullying is rare, and should it occur, trusted adults would deal with it effectively.