The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You are an inspirational and dynamic leader across the infant school federation, providing pupils with a rich and stimulating curriculum. You receive excellent support from the governing body, which provides appropriate challenge to ensure that the school goes from strength to strength. The pupils reflect the core values of the school through their caring and thoughtful relationships with each other. These values are endorsed in daily collective worship activities and during class activities. The pupils understand the importance of key values, such as humility, compassion and forgiveness. These are exemplified in pupils’ behaviour around the school and their willingness to engage in the varied learning experiences on offer at the school. You and your staff have focused on delivering a curriculum that is broad and balanced. The curriculum is innovative and interesting because you link it to the school’s local community. You regularly invite people in to school to talk about their roles and responsibilities in the community. Pupils’ writing in their workbooks showed that they enjoyed the visit from the local fire service. Such visits are used well to enhance the curriculum. You are passionate about providing activities for the pupils that meet all of their interests, both during and after school. Pupils spoke enthusiastically about the school’s morning and after-school club, called the AM and PM clubs, where they enjoy playing games and have the opportunity to use their skills in creative ways. The pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is a strength of the school. For example, I observed the local church leader deliver an assembly based on the advent wreath, and describe in detail the significance of the candles as representations of the key people in the Christmas story. The pupils listened attentively throughout the assembly and shared in the delight of lighting the candles. The values of the school are endorsed during collective worship and this is reflected in the pupils’ positive attitudes and behaviours towards each other. You have dealt effectively with the areas for improvement from the previous Ofsted inspection. There is greater consistency in marking and feedback. Pupils’ books show that they have regular opportunities to improve their work and are given time to check their work and modify any errors. There is evidence to show that the most able pupils are given more challenging work through targeted questioning, which supports pupils to deepen their learning. Pupils are given opportunities to discuss their ideas with their classmates and record their findings in innovative ways. For example, pupils enjoyed writing about their favourite polar animal, making paper model penguins and using dough to make seals. Performance management addresses the school’s priorities well and is linked to target-setting, pupils’ progress and attainment. You carefully review teachers’ performance linked to their targets to ensure that there is improved pupil achievement through effective performance management. You present your recommendations to the governing body with supporting evidence. The varied curriculum supports pupils to use and apply knowledge well, including their mathematical knowledge. Teachers have set tasks before and after a topic to assess pupils’ knowledge and understanding. Teachers use their assessments of pupils’ knowledge and understanding to adapt tasks; this contributes to increased rates of pupils’ progress. Teachers are able to assess pupils accurately and record this on the school’s comprehensive tracking system. Teachers regularly check on pupils’ learning during class activities, which supports teachers to make informed judgements about how well pupils are achieving. Leaders have detailed discussions with teachers every term about how well pupils are achieving across the curriculum. As a result of the school’s meticulous assessment, leaders are able to hold teachers to account and ensure that any underachievement is dealt with swiftly. Pupils’ attendance, although improving, has been below the national average for the past few years. You have already implemented new ways to raise the profile of attendance in the school, and leaders are monitoring this carefully to ensure that attendance continues to improve for this academic year. The school information for the previous academic year shows that attendance has improved and is in line with the national average. You are keen to sustain this and ensure that every pupil attends school regularly.