The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You, your deputy headteacher and governors are passionately committed to raising the aspirations of all the pupils in your care. This culture is exemplified in the school’s motto, ‘Believe in yourself’, and is clearly apparent in the way pupils talk with enthusiasm about their learning and want to challenge themselves. You are successfully transmitting this culture to your staff. They are committed to improving their practice, and pupils say their teachers make learning interesting and challenging. Staff members greatly value the professional support and development that school leaders offer them. Parents and carers are strongly in agreement that their children are well taught and make good progress at your school. Almost every parent would recommend the school to someone else. Governors are rigorous in their challenge to you and other school leaders about the standards pupils achieve. The monitoring activities they carry out provide them with accurate first-hand knowledge of pupils’ experiences of school. Your school curriculum is wide ranging and interesting. Pupils enjoy many extracurricular clubs, sporting opportunities, musical events and residential trips, including abroad. These experiences help pupils to broaden their horizons and strongly promote their well-being, and social and cultural development. At the last inspection, the school was asked to increase pupils’ use of literacy and numeracy skills when learning in other subjects. This inspection found that pupils extend their high standards of presentation and handwriting into their wider curriculum work. For example, in science books, and in notes as part of their art work, pupils’ spelling, punctuation and handwriting reflect the standard of their literacy work. Pupils write in a range of genres in their curriculum work. For example, in a topic about the Tudors, pupils have written diary entries, letters and reports. Pupils use their numeracy and mathematical skills effectively in other subjects, particularly in science. The last inspection also asked the school to improve pupils’ achievement in mathematics. Over time, pupils’ attainment in mathematics at the end of Year 6 is above that of pupils nationally. However, it does not match the high results pupils attain in reading, particularly at the higher standard. As leaders, you have ensured that this is a key priority for the school’s development. The changes you have introduced to the teaching of mathematics mean that both current pupils generally and specific groups of pupils, such as disadvantaged pupils, the most able and girls, are making better progress in mathematics. However, you agree that the full impact of this work is yet to be reflected in pupils’ attainment and progress at the end of Year 6. Safeguarding is effective. The school places safeguarding at the heart of its work, exemplified by the statement on the school’s website that it is of the ‘utmost importance’. The school’s policies and procedures are up to date and comprehensive in detail and scope. The school’s record-keeping is of a high standard. Leaders have ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose. Staff and governors receive regular training and useful resource materials to support them. They are very clear what procedures to follow if they have a concern about a child. Governors monitor the school’s safeguarding work regularly, conducting formal audits and also spot checks of procedures, such as the signing-in procedure, to ensure that school expectations are being met. On the school website, leaders have included detailed information tabs about safeguarding for parents, and also for children on their own ‘staying safe and well’ tab. My findings from my meetings with pupils, and their replies to the online pupil survey, show very clearly that pupils feel very safe, happy and well looked after at school. As a pupil said, ‘I have no doubt that I am safe in school.’ Parents overwhelmingly agree. Pupils value the independence and responsibility the school gives them and, in turn, they are polite and respectful to adults and to each other. Pupils appreciate opportunities to share their thoughts and opinions with adults at school and all know to whom they would turn if they had a concern. They say bullying is uncommon and that adults would deal with it swiftly. Pupils’ enjoyment of school means they attend at a very high rate.