The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. The school continues to improve under your leadership and the leadership of the head of school. You, the head of school, middle leaders and governors work effectively as a team to ensure that pupils achieve well. In your role as the executive headteacher of Harefield Infant School and Harefield Junior School, you ensure that effective practice is shared to improve teaching. You also ensure that there is smooth transition for pupils when they join the junior school at the end of Year 2. For example, pupils in Year 5 read with Year 2 pupils to help improve their reading skills. The local authority thinks highly of you, acknowledging the work you do to support training programmes on improving leadership in other schools. The local authority is also complimentary about the work your leaders do with other schools on moderating pupils’ work to ensure that assessment procedures are accurate. Leaders work closely with the children’s centre on the school’s site, providing training for parents on literacy and mathematics to support their children’s learning. This also ensures the effective transition of children who attend the children’s centre into your Nursery provision. You provide strong and passionate leadership. Governors share your ambition, providing leaders with effective support and challenge to ensure continuous improvement. You know your parents well and have built a strong sense of community. The school has achieved several national awards, including for the work you do to ensure that your most-able pupils achieve well and your work with families to overcome any barriers to learning. Parents who responded to Ofsted’s online survey, Parent View, were overwhelmingly supportive of the school’s leadership. They used words such as ‘fantastic’ and ‘amazing’ to describe the school. You have been relentless in your approach to improving the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, and provide your staff with effective training and support to improve. You have established a stable team of staff and their morale is high. You have rightly identified that improving the attainment and progress of pupils in phonics (letters and the sounds they represent) is a school priority. At the time of the previous inspection, the outside learning area for children in the early years was highlighted as an area where the school needed to improve. Since that time, you and your leadership team have been effective in improving the outside area. It is well equipped and supports all areas of children’s learning. It is a fun place for children to learn. Under your leadership, a successful ‘Forest School’ has been created as an extension to the outdoor learning area. Children love the Forest School, where they have plenty of opportunities to explore their surroundings, be imaginative and extend their understanding of the world. The other area for improvement highlighted in the previous inspection was to do with developing the skills of boys in writing. At the end of Year 2 in 2016, the overall standards in writing were higher than found nationally. A higher proportion of boys achieved the expected standard in writing compared with boys nationally. Leaders are predicting standards to rise in writing overall this year. However, you acknowledge that writing can be improved further, particularly for some of the lower-attaining boys. Safeguarding is effective. Leaders and governors ensure that all safeguarding arrangements are in place and are fit for purpose. There is a strong culture of vigilance to ensure that safeguarding is effective. All the vetting checks on the suitability of staff and volunteers are carried out rigorously. Safeguarding is central to the work of the governing body and governors regularly check the school’s work to ensure that pupils are kept safe. Staff, including governors, receive regular and relevant training about safeguarding and child protection procedures. Staff know how to respond to concerns about a child’s safety and welfare. You use the school’s website well to inform and signpost parents to other websites that they can access to keep their children safe, including when online at home. Pupils told me that they ‘always feel safe at school’. Pupils said that staff keep them safe and they are taught to keep themselves safe, for example when using the internet. All parents who responded to Parent View agreed that their children are kept safe.