East Hoathly CofE Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

Pupils' achievement has improved significantly. This is because pupils' progress in reading, writing and mathematics has accelerated rapidly throughout the school. The quality of teaching has rapidly improved.

Pupils are given work they find challenging but enjoyable. Pupils have extremely positive attitudes towards learning and each other. Their behaviour is excellent and they confidently contribute to the school's improvement.

The executive headteacher and head of school have relentlessly driven the improvements in achievement and teaching. They have put in place exemplary procedures for checking the progress of pupils and how... well they are taught. The governing body keeps careful track of the school's performance and holds leaders and managers to account for their actions.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : Some more able pupils are not given work that will stretch them enough. Middle managers are not fully involved in the formal monitoring of the quality of teaching.

Information about this school

This is a smaller-than-average primary school.

Most of the pupils are of White British heritage. The proportion of pupils eligible for the pupil premium, which provides additional funding in this school for children in local authority care and pupils known to be eligible for free school meals, is below average; there are no children of military services personnel. The school is working in partnership with St John's Mead Church of England Primary School.

The secondment of the executive headteacher from the partner school was arranged by the local authority. In addition, the head of school, who is the deputy headteacher from another local primary school, was also seconded. The governors have agreed with the local authority that these secondments should continue for a further year.

The executive headteacher has recently been supporting another local primary school at the request of the local authority. A privately-run pre-school uses a room at the school each day. This was not part of this inspection.

The school meets the government's floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress. When East Hoathly Church of England Primary School was inspected in November 2012, it was judged to require special measures. Subsequently, the school received three monitoring inspections.