St James' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Catchment Area, Reviews and Key Information

Primary
PUPILS
Not Available
AGES
5 - 11
GENDER
Mixed
TYPE
Voluntary Aided School
SCHOOL GUIDE RATING
Not Rated

This school has now become an academy. You can see the new school here

How Does The School Perform?

Good
NATIONAL AVG. 2.09
Ofsted Inspection
(26/11/2014)
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Paringdon Road
Harlow
CM18 7RH
01279 432459

School Description

St James’ Church of England VA Primary School is a smaller than average sized primary school. Since the last inspection, there have been significant changes to staffing and leadership. The school is due to become an academy next term. An interim executive board replaced the governing body. Its Chair and the executive headteacher are expected to continue to have oversight of the school until at least July 2016. A new head of school has been appointed to take up post after the Easter break 2015. The executive headteacher is also the headteacher of another local school, which is working in partnership with St James’. Over a third of pupils are from minority ethnic groups and almost a quarter speak English as an additional language. One in five pupils in the school are disabled or have special educational needs. This proportion is slightly above average. Almost a quarter of pupils are supported by pupil premium funding; this is in line with the national average. The pupil premium is additional government funding to support the achievement of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals or who are looked after. The school has Early Years Foundation Stage provision in the Reception class which children attend full time. In 2014 the school met the government’s current floor standards which set the minimum expectations for pupils’ attainment and progress What does the school need to do to improve further? Continue to allocate extra resources to make certain that pupils in Years 4 and 5 sustain accelerated progress and make up the ground they have lost as the result of poor teaching in the past. Increase the impact of the new special educational needs coordinator by embedding the systems recently implemented and by: frequently analysing the impact of extra support and intervention on the progress made by disadvantaged pupils and by disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs, making rapid changes to improve progress where necessary continuing to improve the planning and work of all the learning support assistants so that the pupils they work with make good progress as a result. Improve the achievement of children in the Early Years Foundation Stage by: embedding the rigorous assessment and planning implemented by the new teacher providing children with more freedom to choose learning opportunities improving the condition of the outdoor learning space to extend the range of learning activities.

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