Leaders at Panshanger Primary School have continued to provide the good quality of education identified in the previous inspection report. Your focus on the academic and pastoral success of each of your pupils is shared by your leadership team and staff. Parents are overwhelmingly impressed by your hard work and commitment. This is evident in the many responses to Ofsted’s online questionnaire, Parent View. Parents commented on the ‘professional level of teaching’ and the ‘lovely, family school’. One parent noted how Panshanger Primary ‘not only extends learning through rich and well-balanced experiences but also nurtures, encourages and supports pupils as individuals’. Together with the governing body, leadership has continued to improve the quality of education and pastoral support provided to pupils across the school. You have highly effective processes for monitoring and supporting teaching, learning and assessment. As a result, staff feel well supported and teaching across the school is strong. One parent’s view that ‘teachers and the management team are fantastic’ was echoed by several others. Governance at Panshanger Primary is strong. The governing body is well led and provides pertinent challenge alongside effective support. Governors know the school very well and demonstrate high levels of commitment to ensuring its continued success. They use the information gathered on school visits to question and challenge you and your leadership team. Pupils’ behaviour is exemplary. They are courteous, respectful and kind towards their classmates and adults. As a consequence, there is a harmonious learning environment throughout the school. Pupils are eager to learn and enthusiastic about the topics they study. You have ensured that pupils study a rich curriculum whereby pupils’ innate curiosity about the world is cultivated and extended. Pupils have a range of opportunities to develop their understanding about critical British values such as democracy, tolerance and free speech. For example, the school was awarded the Unicef Rights Respecting Award. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child underpins pupils’ development as informed young citizens aware of their right to voice their views and questions about the school and the world beyond. You correctly judge middle leadership to be a strength of the school. As part of an established leadership structure, they have ensured that changes to the curriculum are managed smoothly. As a result, the curriculum is both engaging and challenging for pupils. They provide continuous support to staff in their respective subject areas ensuring that all pupils develop a wide range of useful skills alongside subject knowledge. Consequently pupils make good progress across the curriculum. You and your leaders take action where you consider improvements are required. For example, your focus on improving pupils’ achievements in mathematics resulted in improved outcomes in 2016 and 2017 for most pupils at key stage 2. However, you recognise that there are still areas in which the school needs to improve. For example, your school improvement plan identifies the importance of accelerating pupils’ achievements in mathematics as the most able pupils did not exceed the national average at key stage 2 in 2016 and 2017. You acknowledge also that you need to ensure that the precision with which pupils write in English is replicated in their writing in other subjects. Safeguarding is effective. Pupils are articulate and confident at Panshanger Primary. Pupils told me how safe and protected they felt at the school. Pupils could tell me how they kept themselves safe when on the internet and why it was important to do so. All parents who responded to the Ofsted questionnaire, Parent View, agreed that their children are safe, protected and happy in their learning. Pupils know what forms bullying can take. They explained that bullying is very rare at the school and that if it occurs, it is dealt with speedily and effectively. Pupils respond to each other with kindness and empathy both in the classroom and in the playground. Leaders, including governors ensure that all safeguarding arrangements are securely maintained and reviewed regularly. Records, including the checks made on adults who work at the school, are rigorously maintained. Inspection evidence affirms that staff provide timely and effective support to pupils in need of support. Adults receive thorough training in their safeguarding duty. Inspection evidence demonstrates that staff are vigilant and alert to pupils’ needs and changes in behaviour. Adults closely follow the school’s safeguarding procedures when reporting and recording safeguarding concerns.