Spalding Primary Academy is a friendly, nurturing and welcoming school. Pupils are happy and kept safe. One pupil, typical of many, said, ‘Our school is like a big family.’ The school has created an atmosphere where everyone shows respect, trust, curiosity, pride and determination. The diversity of the school community is celebrated, threaded through the curriculum and represented in the books that pupils read. Pupils know the school values well and demonstrate these in their interactions. There is a culture of support and kindness to others, which all the school models well. The school has high expectations of pupils’ learning and behaviour. Pupils meet these expectations and understand, appreciate and respect difference. They report, ‘In this school, everyone should be treated the same. You don’t know what they have been through in life.’ Pupils benefit from a wide range of trips and visitors that enrich the curriculum. Pupils contribute to their local community, for example by visiting the local care home and decorating the Christmas tree in the local church. They enjoy positions of responsibility, including their roles as school councillors and being ‘Wombles’, as litter pickers.