The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You and your leadership team have ensured that the school is a happy and vibrant place for pupils to learn. You have created a stimulating learning environment which extends beyond the classrooms into the corridors. Your ‘Harry Potter’ themed library is inviting and encourages a love of reading both fiction and non-fiction books, particularly for boys. Your ‘Doctor Who’ corridor, into which pupils enter through a traditional police box door, makes innovative use of digital communications technology and motivates pupils to be inquisitive and curious learners in the presence of characters from the television series. You and your subject leaders plan strategically for school improvement. Indeed, every subject leader has produced an improvement plan which forms part of your whole-school planning process. When considered as one document, there is potential for this to become unwieldly, and it would benefit from being streamlined so that it is easier to measure progress and it becomes more user-friendly, especially for the governing body when they need to hold you to account. Pupils are very well-mannered, wear their uniform with great pride and speak very positively of the opportunities they are given in school to learn and make good progress. You have maintained high levels of behaviour in the school by rewarding pupils who do the right thing, and using appropriate sanctions for pupils who do not meet your and their teachers’ expectations. When I visited lessons to observe pupils learning, I was impressed by the host pupils who welcomed me with a handshake, explained what they were learning and invited me to ask them questions. Teachers convey enthusiasm for their subject and carefully plan for pupils’ learning. This planning includes a range of tasks which aim to challenge pupils, whatever their ability. I observed pupils making well-considered choices about whether to select a ‘paddling’, ‘snorkelling’ or ‘diving’ task, with many choosing the moredemanding ‘diving’ tasks. Pupils work well together in lessons, make good use of resources, including the digital tablets which all pupils are loaned during their four years at the school, and know the targets they are given by their teachers. I observed pupils keenly using digital tablets in a computing lesson where they were using computer gaming activities to deepen their understanding of computer coding in your ‘Spark Lab’. Pupils’ progress in 2017, at the end of key stage 2, was average in reading, well above average in writing and above average in mathematics. Boys’ progress was weaker than girls’ in reading, and some pupils with high prior attainment did not make the progress they should have in mathematics. Because progress in reading dipped in 2017, this meant that the combined score for reading, writing and mathematics fell below the national average. You have rightly identified that pupils’ spelling is a weaker feature of the grammar, punctuation and spelling test, and my scrutiny of pupils’ books supports this finding. However, your school improvement planning correctly identifies the need to address all of these weaknesses, and your proposals to put matters right are appropriate. Your work with disadvantaged pupils in the school is successful, and differences between this group of pupils and non-disadvantaged pupils nationally are diminishing rapidly. Safeguarding is effective. Safeguarding children is a high priority throughout the school. All staff have received and read the latest guidance, ‘Keeping children safe in education’ (2016), and demonstrate a strong awareness of safeguarding issues. All staff have also undergone training in the government’s ‘Prevent’ duty. Staff, including those who join the school mid-year, receive up-to-date training on safeguarding matters. The school’s record of recruitment checks of the suitability of staff is compliant with current requirements. Records of pupils who are at risk of abuse or neglect, or who are deemed to be vulnerable, are very well maintained and informative. Records are kept securely and show clearly how concerns have been resolved. Appropriate external agencies are informed as and when necessary.