OFSTED INSPECTION REPORT

We are delighted and proud that the school continues to be judged as Outstanding in September 2022.

This is an incredible and very significant achievement.  Since our last inspection in 2016, Ofsted changed the inspection framework and significantly raised expectations on schools’ performance to achieve the new challenging and exacting Outstanding grade.  In the past year in all inspections, only 1 in 20 schools is  being graded as Outstanding, and only 25% of primary schools that were judged previously as Outstanding remained as Outstanding when re-inspected.  

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Academic Outcomes 

The academic profile of the school remains very strong, with results from every phase of the school very much above national benchmarks in all subjects.

The proportion of children at the end of Reception reaching the Good Level of Development was 87% (compared to 89% in 2019), very much above the national level of 65% (which itself was a fall of 7% from 2019, the last national published assessment point pre-Covid).  Outcomes across all individual areas of learning were strong.

86% of children met the threshold for the Year 1 phonics check higher than the national benchmark of 75% (which itself was which was a fall of 7% from 2019, the last national published assessment point pre-Covid). 

At the end of year 2, the school’s outcomes in all subjects were well above the national benchmark for reaching the expected standard; 83% for reading, 73% for writing and 86% for maths (with 71% reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined).

For comparison, the national picture was again that outcomes fell significantly from 2019 - the percentage achieving the expected standard or above in writing fell from 70% in 2019 to 58% in 2022. In reading, the percentage of pupils achieving this standard fell from 76% to 67% and in maths from 77% to 68%.

Outcomes in the Year 4 Multiplicatio Tables Check seem very strong, with 93% of children achieving a score of 22 or more (out of 25), and an average score overall of 23.7.  There are no national benchmarks for comparison yet published.

At the end of year 6, outcomes in all subjects were very much above above the national benchmark for reaching the expected standard; 89% for reading, 94% for writing and 93% for maths (with 81% reaching the expected standard and 29% reaching greater depth in reading, writing and maths combined).

Again, the national picture in 2022 was a sharp fall in standards from pre-Covid levels:  59% achieved the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined down from 65% in 2019.  This was repeated in every subject apart from reading where it rose by 1% from 73% in 2019.  In maths, the proportion meeting the expected standard fell from 79% to 71% and in writing it fell from 78% to 69%.

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