The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. On joining the school as interim executive headteacher in December 2017, you quickly established a strong and convincing vision to stabilise the leadership of the school. You, ably supported by the interim head of school, have brought an increased sense of urgency and pace to school improvement. Together, you make sure that pupils are taught well and their well-being is looked after closely. Parents, carers and staff are highly supportive of your leadership and the improvements being made. One parent, echoing the views of many, commented: ‘Above all there is a genuine feeling of inclusivity within the school, and the school’s efforts to nurture academic progress hand in hand with their pupils’ welfare and well-being is highly commendable.’ Staff understand and share your ambitious vision. They value the opportunities they are given to develop their professional skills successfully. Staff morale is high, with them greatly appreciating your efforts to reduce their workload. Subject leaders are clear about how their work is making an impact on pupils’ learning. A strong sense of common purpose and commitment to improve resonates throughout the school. Your evaluation of the school’s effectiveness is accurate. Like you, governors have a clear vision and are committed to building on the improvements you have already put in place. To this end, they have successfully appointed a new headteacher, who will join the school in September 2019. The governing body provides appropriate support and challenge to school leaders. Governors ensure that they are trained well with the correct knowledge to carry out their statutory responsibilities. The local authority has been instrumental in providing well-targeted support to the school over the last couple of years, which continues at the appropriate level. Pupils are settled and happy in the school. They say that the school is a place where ‘we are cared for’. They learn in a calm, organised and well-structured environment where routines are securely established. Impressive displays of pupils’ work line corridors and classrooms, bringing alive the wide variety of activities and subjects the school offers. Pupils relish the opportunities that they are given to contribute responsibly to the life of the school. For example, Year 6 pupils enjoy supporting children in Reception and aspire to be part of the ‘learning evaluation group’, where they are encouraged to play an active role in school improvement. All parents who responded to Ofsted’s online questionnaire Parent View and parents spoken to during the inspection were positive about their children’s progress and school experience. Levels of trust between staff and parents are high, as illustrated by this comment from a parent: ‘Any concerns raised are dealt with the same day and the communication has always been exemplary.’ At the time of the last inspection, you were asked to make sure that pupils’ phonics and spelling skills improved. Performance information for 2018 shows that the proportion of pupils who achieved the phonics test in Year 1 rose significantly from the previous year and is now above the national average. In 2018, at the end of key stage 2, a higher proportion of pupils achieved the expected and the higher standard in the English grammar, punctuation and spelling test than in the previous year. Nonetheless, you have continued to make writing and spelling a focus on the school development plan this year. You were also asked to improve teaching to ensure that pupils are moved onto challenging tasks more quickly and that teaching assistants have the appropriate skills to support pupils effectively. Your work to improve the teaching of mathematics across the school has been highly successful, with higher than national average outcomes at the expected and the higher standard at the end of key stage 2 in 2018. Teachers provide appropriate levels of challenge in mathematics, and pupils say this approach helps them make progress. Your continued work to improve teaching in other subjects is firmly underway and work in pupils’ books shows teachers have increasingly high expectations for pupils’ achievement. Teaching assistants provide highly effective support for a range of different pupils in class and for smaller groups. You recognise that there is more work to do to ensure that all teaching is as strong as the best in the school. Safeguarding is effective. The leadership team and governors ensure that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose. You undertake regular safeguarding reviews and have made sure that recommendations have been followed up. Governors are thorough in checking the work of leaders and visit the school to assure themselves that safeguarding records and processes are fit for purpose.