The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You, your leaders and governors have an accurate and indepth understanding of the school’s strengths and areas for future development. You have nurtured a new but determined leadership team and its members have brought renewed energy to the school. Together with your leaders, you have prioritised the actions needed to bring about the most effective changes at the school. This has been highly successful in improving outcomes for pupils across all key stages. Ninelands Primary School is a rapidly improving school and has the capacity to improve further. You were quite rightly pleased with the most recent outcomes for pupils in key stage 1, key stage 2 and early years. These results for 2017 show a remarkable improvement on the previous year. At key stage 2, the proportion of pupils who are now attaining expected and higher than expected standards in reading and mathematics is above average. At key stage 1, the improvement is equally good, with outcomes that are similar to and sometimes above average. The strong leadership and improved provision in early years have secured your best ever results for this part of the school. The proportion of children attaining a good level of development in early years has rapidly improved and is now well above average. Staff have responded well to your raised expectations, and morale in the school is high. You ensure that teachers are held strongly to account for the achievement of their pupils. Teachers support and challenge each other to improve their practice and have benefited from a range of good training opportunities. At the time of the previous inspection, inspectors asked you to raise attainment, particularly in writing and mathematics. This you have successfully done. Work in pupils’ books shows that learning activities are appropriately challenging for most pupils, and pupils are applying their writing and mathematical skills in different subjects well. Following the introduction of a new mathematics curriculum, pupils now have good opportunities to use their mathematical skills to solve number problems, and evidence from pupils’ work shows that they are doing this effectively. The standards that pupils are currently attaining, and the progress they are now making, are a result of well-thought-out plans to improve teaching and learning. As a result of actions you and your leaders have taken to improve standards in writing, most pupils are using a range of interesting vocabulary and complex sentences in their written work. However, you agreed with me that in a small number of classes, most-able pupils were not being challenged sufficiently in their written work. Consequently, these pupils are not achieving the standards in writing of which they are capable. When we visited classrooms, we observed well-behaved pupils who were engaged in and enjoying their learning. Pupils confirmed to me that this is typical. Teachers mostly plan work that is appropriately matched to pupils’ needs. Teaching assistants work alongside teachers effectively and give good support to pupils during lessons. However, you recognise that occasionally the needs of some pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities are not met sufficiently well because the work they do is too hard. Safeguarding is effective. Leaders have ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose and records are detailed and of high quality. There is a strong safeguarding culture in the school where nothing is left to chance. School leaders follow up any concerns diligently and work effectively with external agencies to ensure that children and families get the support they need. Parents who replied to Parent View, Ofsted’s questionnaire, report that their children are safe and secure at the school and are well looked after. Staff have benefited from appropriate training and understand what to do should a safeguarding issue or concern arise. All your policies and procedures relating to safeguarding, including safeguarding checks on adults working at the school, meet requirements and are up to date. Governors are fully involved in the oversight of safeguarding across the school.