Brinkley Grove Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Brinkley Grove Primary School is now a good school.

The determined leadership of senior and subject leaders ensures that the school is continuing to improve rapidly. Effective governance has contributed well to the school's continuous improvement. Governors use their skills well to support the school.

Leaders' plans for improvement are effective. However, they do not focus sharply enough on what leaders expect to achieve at key points in time. This reduces the opportunity for governors to ask timely questions about the impact of the school's actions.

Teachers have benefited from well-planned training and opportunities to work wit...h a range of partners from other local schools. This work has helped them to improve their teaching. The teaching of reading, writing and mathematics has substantially improved since the previous inspection following the introduction of effective new strategies.

As a result, most pupils have made strong progress over the last school year. The work set for most-able pupils, and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), is sometimes too easy or too hard. Advice to pupils about how to improve their work is not precise enough.

This means that some most-able pupils and some with SEND do not make the rapid progress they could. The wider curriculum is inspiring and well planned. Rich learning experiences contribute well to pupils' academic progress and to their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Younger pupils are taught phonics well. They use their growing understanding of letters and sounds to help them master their early reading and writing skills. Pupils' attendance is above average.

Their conduct in lessons and at breaktimes is good. Staff manage the occasionally challenging behaviour of individual pupils well. Pupils feel safe in school.

They trust staff to look after them well. Most parents and carers are supportive of the work of the school and appreciate the improvements made since the previous inspection.

Information about this school

Brinkley Grove Primary School is a larger-than-average primary school.

The proportion of pupils eligible for the pupil premium is below the national average. Just over two thirds of the pupils are from White British backgrounds. The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is average.

The proportion of pupils who have an education, health and care plan (EHC) is well above the national average. The proportion of pupils with SEND is average. There is a before- and after-school club which is separately registered with Ofsted.

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