At the beginning of November 2024, Challenge Partners conducted an incredibly rigorous but supportive quality assurance review of our school over three days, and we are delighted to have been accredited with, ‘Effective’ in all areas. We were also accredited with an ‘Area of Excellence’ for Early Literacy and Reading in EYFS. Challenge Partners is a long-standing national education organisation, best known for its thorough quality assurance work. The review team was led by a highly experienced professional with significant experience as an Ofsted inspector.
The team reviewed a wide range of core aspects of our school and the resultant report, which can be accessed by clicking this link Challenge Partners QAR is a perceptive and exceptionally positive review. The reviewers loved being in lessons, where ‘exciting lessons capture pupil’s interests’ interest’ and where ‘very positive relationships, built on mutual respect, abound in all classrooms’. They saw at every turn that our values ‘represent the heartbeat of the school.’
We were delighted to have our EYFS literacy and reading provision recognised as an area of excellence. This achievement reflects three years of dedicated development and review, effectively bridging the gap between early communication and language difficulties and achieving outstanding EYFS outcomes by the end of Reception.
“The school is deeply committed to delivering a robust phonics programme through the Read Write Inc (RWI) scheme, which forms a cornerstone of the daily curriculum. Targeted one-to-one interventions are provided, based on half-termly assessments, for those pupils who require it so that staff are able to address individual developmental needs more precisely. Parental engagement is vital, and this is achieved by sending home books that align with each pupils’ phonetic level, along with ‘books to share’ for family enjoyment. Parents are further supported through home learning phonics packs, meetings, and tailored guidance shared via SeeSaw.“
I would encourage you to read the report and I would like to thank all members of our school community for their contribution to providing the best possible education for children so that they will shape the world. It is one big team effort!
David Nightingale
Headteacher
Click here to view school's attainment data for 2023 - 2024:
The government will not publish KS2 school level data for the 2021 to 2022 academic year. They have archived data from the 2018 to 2019 academic year because they recognise that the data from that year may no longer reflect current performance.
