Berewood Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Outstanding leadership is a strength of the school. Leaders' and governors' effective actions ensure that the school is good, and improving quickly. The trust assists leaders extremely well.

They provide strong support and challenge that further enhances the school's effectiveness. Leaders develop teaching very well. They provide excellent training and development opportunities for staff.

The impressive curriculum provides a wealth of opportunities that inspire pupils to learn. Pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities receive high-quality care and support. As a result, they achieve well.

Disadvantaged pupils,... including the most able, make good progress. Leaders have high aspirations for this group of pupils. Pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is good.

Leaders prioritise this through a range of successful learning activities that ensure that pupils are ready for life in modern Britain. Teaching is good. Teachers are particularly skilled in asking pupils questions that deepen their knowledge and understanding.

Pupils make good progress across a range of subjects. A few are not yet working at a level appropriate for their age, particularly in mathematics and English. However, they are catching up quickly.

The early years setting is a positive learning environment. Children learn well, make good progress, and end Reception Year ready for Year 1. Learning activities are not consistently well matched to pupils' needs.

Some pupils' progress reduces because activities are occasionally too difficult, or too easy. Sometimes, pupils do not accurately know what they need to do to improve their work.

Information about this school

The school complies with Department for Education guidance on what academies should publish.

The school meets requirements on the publication of specified information on its website. The school opened in September 2014. It is part of the University of Chichester Academy Trust.

Berewood is a smaller than average-sized primary school. The majority of pupils are White British. Others come from a range of different ethnic backgrounds.

The proportion who speak English as an additional language is below the national average. The proportion of pupils who are supported by the pupil premium is above the national average. The proportion of pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities is above average.

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