The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You are driven and determined to ensure that your vision of, ‘a school family, engaged, aspiring and learning together’ fully describes the school – and it does. You know the school very well, providing an honest evaluation of the strengths and areas to improve. Using this information, you have ensured that staff receive quality professional development. You have skilfully woven professional development into the development of the whole school, so that staff learn together. You distribute the responsibility for improving the school effectively. Subject leaders are empowered to move their subjects forward. There has been an emphasis on improving the teaching of mathematics and reading. Subject leaders have driven these improvements. Teachers talk with excitement and enthusiasm about strategies that improve the quality of teaching and learning across the school. A typical comment from subject leaders was, ‘since we have introduced this, pupils are soaring’. You agree that subject leaders could have more opportunities to visit lessons and look at books in order to gain a full picture of the impact of their actions to improve their subject areas. A recommendation from the previous inspection was to ensure that assessment information is used well so that any differences in progress for any groups of pupils are noticed and quickly acted on in order to reduce these differences. You have been resolute in ensuring that staff understand, and use, the new but fully embedded assessment system. You have ensured that assessment is at the heart of how teachers plan work so that pupils’ needs are met effectively. Teachers use the clearly presented information about pupils’ progress to adjust the activities they plan on a daily basis. Leaders are well rehearsed at using wholeschool pupil progress information to challenge colleagues further about the progress that different groups are making. There is a clear determination to ensure that pupils achieve well, no matter what challenges they may face. Your focus has not just been on the basics of mathematics and English; you also believe in developing a wide range of skills for each pupil. You are committed to using every moment in the day for learning, and this includes breaktimes. Pupils really enjoy their learning outside and staff appreciate the heavy investment that you and the governors have made in this. Pupils learn to work together in teams as they play with the wide-ranging resources. Pupils share and cooperate with one another well. Thanks to the professional development they have received, your skilled, experienced lunchtime staff team oversee this with confidence. Learning outside is also a feature of how the curriculum is delivered. You have ensured that there is an interesting, broad curriculum, which inspires and motivates pupils to want to learn and includes an emphasis on the arts. This is a caring, nurturing school where pupils are well mannered, polite and friendly. Everyone has a chance to shine and do well. Pupils enjoy learning alongside each other. Special themed weeks, such as arts week, enable pupils to learn with pupils from other year groups and they do this with confidence and growing maturity. Books are presented well and show the pride that pupils have for their work. Pupils display very good attitudes during lessons, listening attentively to their teachers’ explanations and getting down to their work quickly. There is a harmonious, productive atmosphere around the school. Most parents are very happy with the school and agree that the school provides well for their children. A few feel that their concerns could be listened to more effectively. You agree that more could be done to understand parents’ views. Safeguarding is effective. The leadership team has ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose and records are detailed and of high quality. Governors are involved in checking procedures and look for ways to learn from the best practice in other schools in order to continue to improve safeguarding procedures even further. Staff ensure that school is a safe environment in which to learn and pupils are resolute that they feel safe and secure. Pupils are encouraged to learn about how to take risks through their creative play opportunities outside. This contributes to the ‘learning together’ ethos.