Crawshawbooth Primary School
Catchment Area, Reviews and Key Information

Primary
PUPILS
305
AGES
4 - 11
GENDER
Mixed
TYPE
Community school
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The concentration of pupils shows likelihood of admission based on distance criteria

Source: All attending pupils National School Census Data, ONS
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This School Guide heat map has been plotted using official pupil data taken from the last School Census collected by the Department for Education. It is a visualisation of where pupils lived at the time of the annual School Census.

Our heat maps use groups of postcodes, not individual postcodes, and have naturally soft edges. All pupils are included in the mapping (i.e. children with siblings already at the school, high priority pupils and selective and/or religious admissions) but we may have removed statistical ‘outliers’ with more remote postcodes that do not reflect majority admissions.

For some schools, the heat map may be a useful indicator of the catchment area but our heat maps are not the same as catchment area maps. Catchment area maps, published by the school or local authority, are based on geographical admissions criteria and show actual cut-off distances and pre-defined catchment areas for a single admission year.

This information is provided as a guide only. The criteria in which schools use to allocate places in the event that they are oversubscribed can and do vary between schools and over time. These criteria can include distance from the school and sometimes specific catchment areas but can also include, amongst others, priority for siblings, children of a particular faith or specific feeder schools. Living in an area where children have previously attended a school does not guarantee admission to the school in future years. Always check with the school’s own admission authority for the current admission arrangements.

3 steps to help parents gather catchment information for a school:

  1. Look at our school catchment area guide for more information on heat maps. They give a useful indicator of the general areas that admit pupils to the school. This visualisation is based on all attending pupils present at the time of the annual School Census.
  2. Use the link to the Local Authority Contact (above) to find catchment area information based on a single admission year. This is very important if you are considering applying to a school.
  3. On each school page, use the link to visit the school website and find information on individual school admissions criteria. Geographical criteria are only applied after pupils have been admitted on higher priority criteria such as Looked After Children, SEN, siblings, etc.

How Does The School Perform?

Good
NATIONAL AVG. 2.09
Ofsted Inspection
(07/03/2023)
Full Report - All Reports
60%
NATIONAL AVG. 60%
% pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics



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Progress Compared With All Other Schools

UNLOCK Well Below Average (About 9% of schools in England) Below Average (About 9% of schools in England) Average (About 67% of schools in England) Above Average (About 6% of schools in England) Well Above Average (About 9% of schools in England) UNLOCK Well Below Average (About 10% of schools in England) Below Average (About 9% of schools in England) Average (About 67% of schools in England) Above Average (About 6% of schools in England) Well Above Average (About 8% of schools in England) UNLOCK Well Below Average (About 10% of schools in England) Below Average (About 11% of schools in England) Average (About 59% of schools in England) Above Average (About 11% of schools in England) Well Above Average (About 9% of schools in England)
Burnley Road
Crawshawbooth
Rossendale
BB4 8AN
01706228664

School Description

The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. This is because of your strong leadership and clear determination to provide the best that you can for your pupils. You and your senior colleagues have a detailed understanding of the school’s strengths and weaknesses and very precise plans to ensure further improvement. At the time of the last inspection, you were asked to: provide better outdoor activities in the early years; improve pupils’ problem-solving skills in mathematics; increase the pace of lessons; and ensure that work is matched to the varying abilities of pupils. You have tackled each of these areas systematically and with considerable success. The outdoor provision in the early years is now very extensive and attractive and includes a wide range of resources to support children’s development in all areas of learning. The children can move freely from indoors to the outdoors, whatever the weather, and teachers plan their work carefully to ensure that children have ample opportunities to develop and apply their learning in a variety of contexts. Because of the success of this work, you have now extended outdoor learning to all year groups in the school. The recently opened outdoor learning laboratory is used particularly well to support work in science and drama. Following the last inspection, you introduced a new commercial mathematics scheme. When this did not have sufficient impact on pupils’ progress, you had the courage to change your approach. You decided to focus first on developing pupils’ fluency in arithmetic, so that they would have a firm basis on which to build their problem-solving skills. This proved very successful, especially in raising boys’ achievement. You have also made it a requirement for every class to pursue problem-solving activities regularly. The impact of this policy was clearly evident in the lessons we visited, particularly in Year 6, where pupils used pie charts to analyse a wide range of data. The activities were carefully planned to provide appropriate challenge to pupils of a wide range of abilities. The lessons that we saw all had a very clear structure and included a wide range of activities which captured and maintained the attention of the pupils. In examining pupils’ books, however, we found a considerable discrepancy between the quality of work in the lower junior classes and that in the rest of the school. Lower junior pupils take less pride in the presentation of their work. This attracts little, if any, comment from the teachers. Too many of the written remarks made by these teachers are inaccurately punctuated and provide pupils with poor models of handwriting and presentation. Given that progress at key stage 2 in your school is less rapid than in the early years and key stage 1, you agreed that there is a need to pay further attention to improving the quality of teaching in the lower junior classes. Another weakness that you have identified in your school is the underperformance of boys compared with girls. You have placed considerable focus on rectifying this. However, in some of the lessons we visited, boys had too few opportunities to apply their knowledge and skills independently, without help from the girls. We agreed that there is a need for teachers to consider carefully what opportunities and support they provide for the boys in lessons. The pupils’ behaviour attracted high praise in the last inspection report. This continues to be a significant strength of the school. The pupils are polite, friendly and relate well to each other, to adults and to visitors to the school. They work with concentration during lessons and clearly enjoy being there. Attendance continues to be high and pupils arrive very promptly at school. The parents I met during the inspection and those who responded to the online questionnaire hold the school, its leaders and staff in high regard. The governing body provides you and your staff with a good balance of support and challenge. As a result of their close involvement with the school and the regular reports that they receive from you and your subject leaders, the governors have a clear understanding of the school’s strengths and areas for development. They ensure that you have the necessary resources to support your plans and they monitor expenditure carefully. The governors agreed that it would be useful to identify precise targets against which they could assess the impact of the additional funding for physical education and sports development. Safeguarding is effective. The leadership team has ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose. Your records are up to date and detailed.

Crawshawbooth Primary School Parent Reviews



unlock % Parents Recommend This School
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>71, "agree"=>25, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>76, "agree"=>24, "disagree"=>0, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>71, "agree"=>24, "disagree"=>5, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023
My Child Has Not Been Bullied Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"my_child_has_not_been_bullied"=>79, "strongly_agree"=>8, "agree"=>6, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>3} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>67, "agree"=>29, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>2} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023
I Have Not Raised Any Concerns Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"i_have_not_raised_any_concerns"=>27, "strongly_agree"=>43, "agree"=>17, "disagree"=>10, "strongly_disagree"=>2, "dont_know"=>2} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>20, "agree"=>60, "disagree"=>0, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>20} UNLOCK Figures based on 10 responses up to 07-03-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>57, "agree"=>35, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>2, "dont_know"=>3} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>67, "agree"=>30, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>49, "agree"=>38, "disagree"=>13, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>73, "agree"=>24, "disagree"=>2, "strongly_disagree"=>2, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>73, "agree"=>19, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>2} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>68, "agree"=>16, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>10} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023
Yes No {"yes"=>94, "no"=>6} UNLOCK Figures based on 63 responses up to 07-03-2023

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