Beaconside CofE Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Senior leaders and governors work together highly effectively. This partnership has helped to ensure that teaching and pupils' achievement have improved since the previous inspection. The newly appointed middle leaders have been key to ensuring that the provision and pupils' achievement in their subject areas have improved.

From a low starting point pupils, including the more able, make good progress. Although results in Key Stage 2 dipped in 2015, particularly in reading, school assessments show that current pupils in Year 6 are making good progress and achieving well. The quality of teaching, including in the early years, is good.

Teach...ers and teaching assistants regularly and accurately monitor and assess how well pupils are performing. Pupils with disability and those with special educational needs are well cared for and make good progress. Pupils behave well.

The strong ethos of the school is reflected in the high standards of conduct and concern for others. Governors are fully involved in the life of the school. They challenge and support the leadership team and have a clear view of the strengths of the school and the actions which need to be implemented in order to improve further.

The school's work to promote British values is good. Pupils have a well-developed understanding of their rights and responsibilities. The school provides a safe and secure environment.

Attendance is in line with the national average. Parents are highly positive in their views of the school, and are happy that their children are safe and well looked after. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Teaching assistants are not always effectively deployed and a small number of pupils do not always work hard to complete a good amount of work in their lessons.

The development of reading across the school needs to be better coordinated across the different phases. Reading homework needs greater prioritisation and a small number of pupils need to accelerate their reading performance.

Information about this school

Beaconside Church of England is larger than the average-sized primary school.

The proportion of pupils for whom the school receives pupil premium funding is broadly average. Pupil premium funding is additional government funding for those pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals and those children who are looked after by the local authority. Most pupils are from White British backgrounds.

The number of pupils from minority ethnic groups is well below the national average, as is the proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language. The proportion of pupils with disability and those who have special educational needs is broadly average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of Year 6.

The school provides a breakfast and an after-school club on the school site. This is managed by the governing body. A new deputy headteacher has been appointed since the last inspection.