The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the previous inspection. You have a clear vision for improvement and high expectations of staff and pupils. Staff and governors share your aspirations and commitment to provide the best education for pupils. Parents are very supportive of what the school does for their children. They particularly appreciate the caring ethos that you have created, allowing their children to thrive. The school is a calm and nurturing environment, where staff help pupils to develop well, both academically and personally. This supports pupils’ confidence and promotes strong attitudes to learning. You have addressed the issues identified at the last inspection. For example, the inspection found that there was work to do to improve pupils’ handwriting. In response, you developed the curriculum effectively, immediately prioritising the teaching of writing from Reception upwards. You have ensured that teachers receive effective training in teaching independent writing so that pupils can write skilfully in a range of genres. Consequently, by the time they reach key stage 2, pupils write well, neatly and with purpose. Leaders and teachers ensure that reading has a high profile across the school. Pupils, including disadvantaged pupils, read fluently and with expression. The new library is popular, and the daily ‘Rushmore Reads’ sessions are well planned and provide effective challenge for pupils of different abilities, including the most able pupils. However, as leaders are aware, not all groups of pupils make the same consistently good progress across subjects, and middle leaders vary in their sharpness of their analysis of pupils’ progress. Pupils generally behave well across the school, in lessons and in the playground. They demonstrate positive attitudes, are welcoming, enthusiastic and polite. Pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is strongly encouraged, not least by the ‘Rushmore Resolutions’ that underpin the ethos of the school. British values are promoted well, ensuring that pupils are prepared well for life in modern Britain. I must emphasise how impressed I was with the quality of the school environment. It provides a wonderful, stimulating space for the pupils to learn in and is appreciated by all of the school community. Creative work on display around the school is of high quality. Governors are enthused by your leadership of the school. They are clear about the strengths and areas for development, and support and challenge you and your leadership team well. They are informed about the school’s work through a range of external reviews as well as your comprehensive reports. Safeguarding is effective. Leaders and governors give pupils’ safety an appropriately high priority. You have ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose and records are detailed and of high quality. All checks and procedures for recruiting staff safely are carried out and recorded diligently. All school staff receive timely and high-quality training to ensure that they are confident in applying the school’s policies and guidance in relation to safeguarding issues. Pupils have a good understanding of how to keep themselves safe in a range of situations. They demonstrate an appropriate knowledge of different types of bullying including verbal, physical and cyber bullying. Parents typically describe the school as ‘caring’, ‘safe’ and as having ‘great community spirit’. Inspection findings For my first line of enquiry, we agreed that I would consider pupils’ achievement at key stage 2. In 2016, pupils’ progress was in the in the top 10% of all schools nationally. However, pupils with lower starting points did not make the same rapid progress as their peers. Leaders recognise this point. They have taken effective action to accelerate the progress of these pupils.