Bournemouth Park Academy

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The school is improving.

Since the previous inspection, leaders and governors have successfully tackled key areas for improvement. Pupils' outcomes are improving. From their starting points, most pupils make good progress over time.

They do best of all in mathematics and can apply this well to other areas of learning. Pupils enjoy the interesting tasks teachers set and are motivated to work hard. Teaching, learning and assessment are good.

Guidance from teachers makes clear how pupils can improve their work. Children in the early years provision are taught well. They enjoy a range of exciting learning activities.

The cur...riculum is broad and exciting. It develops pupils' literacy and numeracy skills well. Gaps in learning arising from weaker teaching in the past are successfully being overcome.

Since the last inspection, the headteacher has made new appointments to key leadership positions in the school, which have improved teaching and learning across the school. Pupils respond well to staff expectations and are focused during lessons. Governors hold the school's leaders to account effectively and help to drive the school to improve.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : In some classes, pupils are not challenged sufficiently strongly to achieve their best. British values are not taught well enough across the school. Senior leaders do not make full use of good-quality information provided by middle leaders to fully evaluate the impact of initiatives.

The most-able pupils are not always challenged in their work to reach the highest standards of attainment. Leaders have not made sure that handwriting is taught consistently throughout the school to enable pupils to develop fluent handwriting.

Information about this school

Bournemouth Park is much larger than the average-sized primary school.

More than half of the pupils are supported through the pupil premium (additional government funding for pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and children who are looked after by the local authority). This proportion is above average. The school runs its own breakfast club.

The proportion of pupils whose first language is not believed to be English is higher than the national average. The proportion of pupils with special educational needs or disability is below the national average. The school does meet the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress by the end of Year 6.