Clawton Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an outstanding school The school has improved since its previous inspection and now provides an outstanding quality of education for its pupils. Pupils' achievement is outstanding.

All groups of pupils, including disabled pupils and those with special educational needs, make exceptional progress from their starting points. The quality of teaching is consistently at least good and typically outstanding. It engages pupils' attention completely and leads to outstanding progress.

The strong teamwork among staff means teachers and support staff work together effectively and get the best out of the pupils. Teachers have high expectations of pupils and challe...nge all groups to achieve the very best that they can. Pupils feel very safe in school.

They have a very good understanding about how to keep safe and are very helpful to each other. Pupils' behaviour is exemplary. The pupils are exceptionally polite, courteous and welcoming to visitors, staff and other pupils.

Additional adults that work in the school make a considerable contribution to pupils' achievement, for example when working with small groups or individual pupils during lessons. The school promotes a strong sense of community. Pupils develop a very strong sense of belonging.

They are proud of their school. The wide range of subjects very effectively promotes pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development by offering a wide range of very well-planned experiences both in and outside school. The highly experienced headteacher leads by example.

He inspires everyone in the school, including those responsible for governance, to be highly ambitious for the pupils. He provides exceptional leadership. The governing body is knowledgeable and supportive.

Through robust procedures, governors hold the school to account very thoroughly, especially for pupils' achievement and for the quality of teaching. Parents and carers are overwhelmingly supportive of the school because the vast majority believe their children have an all-round excellent experience at school.

Information about this school

This school is much smaller than the average-sized primary school.

The proportion of pupils eligible for extra money (additional funding for children in local authority care, from service families or known to be entitled to free school meals) is average. The proportion of pupils identified as disabled and those with special educational needs that are supported is average. The proportion of pupils who need extra help or have a statement of special educational needs is well below average.

Most pupils are from a White British background. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress. Children in the Early Years Foundation Stage are taught alongside a few Year 1 pupils.

All pupils are taught in mixed-age classes. There is a privately run pre-school adjacent to the school, which has good links with the school but is not managed by the governing body. The headteacher is a local leader of education (LLE) and provides leadership support for other primary schools on request.