Gamlingay Village Primary
Catchment Area, Reviews and Key Information

Primary
PUPILS
390
AGES
4 - 11
GENDER
Mixed
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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
(05/03/2019)
Full Report - All Reports
51%
NATIONAL AVG. 60%
% pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics



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SG19 3HD
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School Description

The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the previous inspection. You have successfully led the school through a period of considerable turbulence. The school roll has almost doubled, which has presented a challenge for settling in new staff and pupils. At all times, you, the governors and the trust have put pupils first, and this shines through in your focus on caring about every individual pupil. As a result, Gamlingay is a happy school, where pupils feel safe and make good progress. Parents who spoke with me during the inspection told me that their children were happy and felt safe. They commented on the caring nature of the school and how approachable staff were. One parent commented how her child had come on ‘in leaps and bounds’ since transferring into the school. Responses to Parent View, Ofsted’s online questionnaire, showed that a few parents would like more information about what their children are learning. You explained how you were organising reports and parent consultation sessions to ensure that good feedback is given to parents. A strong partnership between the trust, the local governing body and the school ensures that appropriate challenge and support takes place. Where aspects of school provision are not as good as they should be, leaders take quick and decisive action to intervene, for example when key stage 2 mathematics results in 2018 were lower than expected. Leaders have an accurate view of the strengths and areas that require further development within the school. The quality of improvement planning is good and regular checks are made on the progress towards strategic targets. Governors monitor progress regularly through visits to the school and meetings with leaders responsible for the delivery of the action plans. The trust provides effective challenge and support through the deployment of a primary executive leader who visits the school regularly to check on standards and safeguarding and to empower collaboration with other schools in the trust. Together we visited all classrooms within the school, spending time observing teaching, talking to pupils and looking at their books. I found that the quality of teaching overall is securely good and that a particular strength is the use of effective questioning which strengthens and deepens pupils’ knowledge and understanding. Teachers have good subject knowledge and the quality of relationships between adults and pupils within the class is positive. Pupils make good progress in reading and writing so that by the end of Year 6 they achieve in line with national expectations. The curriculum is planned well and provides pupils with a broad and balanced range of activities. During the inspection pupils were seen to be enjoying purposeful learning about volcanoes; imagining what it would feel like to land on the moon; using mathematical equipment in key stage 1 to solve complex number problems; and solving difficult mathematics challenges in Year 6. Discussions with pupils show that they enjoy their learning and feel that they are supported well to make good progress. Pupils’ behaviour in class and at lunchtime is good. They have positive attitudes to learning, enjoy being given challenging work and show resilience when they find something difficult. At breaktime you have introduced a system of peer mediation where older pupils help the younger ones sort out any minor problems that occur on the playground. A peer mediator teacher is on hand to provide additional support where needed. Safeguarding is effective. The leadership team has created a strong culture of safeguarding. Systems for training staff are effective and regular updates are given throughout the year. This ensures that they know precisely what to do if they are concerned about a pupil. Staff know their pupils and families well and act quickly if they identify a need. Concerns are recorded centrally and leaders use this information to seek advice and support from other agencies as appropriate. Concerns are acted upon quickly and leaders ensure that good communication takes place with all relevant parties. Pupils say that they feel safe in school and that their teachers care about them. They know who to turn to if they have worries or problems. You work with a range of external agencies, including social care services, family support workers and counsellors, to improve pupils’ safety further. All staff and governors have received and read up-to-date documentation about safeguarding and child protection. Safer recruitment strategies are followed to ensure that those working in the school have been thoroughly checked. During the inspection, some minor administrative errors were identified in the information held on the single central record within the school.

Gamlingay Village Primary Parent Reviews



unlock % Parents Recommend This School
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>66, "agree"=>30, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>2, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 64 responses up to 09-06-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>72, "agree"=>27, "disagree"=>2, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 64 responses up to 09-06-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>44, "agree"=>42, "disagree"=>8, "strongly_disagree"=>5, "dont_know"=>2} UNLOCK Figures based on 64 responses up to 09-06-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>58, "agree"=>34, "disagree"=>6, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>2} UNLOCK Figures based on 64 responses up to 09-06-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>44, "agree"=>42, "disagree"=>11, "strongly_disagree"=>2, "dont_know"=>2} UNLOCK Figures based on 64 responses up to 09-06-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>34, "agree"=>55, "disagree"=>8, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 64 responses up to 09-06-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>47, "agree"=>45, "disagree"=>2, "strongly_disagree"=>2, "dont_know"=>5} UNLOCK Figures based on 64 responses up to 09-06-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>36, "agree"=>23, "disagree"=>2, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>36} UNLOCK Figures based on 64 responses up to 09-06-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>52, "agree"=>33, "disagree"=>9, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>3} UNLOCK Figures based on 64 responses up to 09-06-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>53, "agree"=>30, "disagree"=>5, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>9} UNLOCK Figures based on 64 responses up to 09-06-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>34, "agree"=>45, "disagree"=>14, "strongly_disagree"=>5, "dont_know"=>2} UNLOCK Figures based on 64 responses up to 09-06-2019
Yes No {"yes"=>91, "no"=>9} UNLOCK Figures based on 64 responses up to 09-06-2019

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