Frenchay Church of England Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Short inspection of Frenchay Church of England Primary School

Following my visit to the school on 26 March 2019, I write on behalf of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills to report the inspection findings. The visit was the first short inspection carried out since the school was judged to be good in September 2015. This school continues to be good.

The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. Since the previous inspection, the school has gone through several staff changes, including across positions of leadership. In addition, plans are underway to expand the school as it prepares to move to a new site nearby.
.../>This will triple the size of the school. In preparation for this, you are ensuring that middle leaders are well-placed to be able to share and implement the school's vision with a much larger staff team who will be new to post. You have a clear and accurate understanding of the school's performance.

You conduct robust monitoring to make sure standards are high as well as providing support for staff. You work closely with local schools to share best practice and to check accuracy of assessments. Staff are overwhelmingly positive about the school and the support they receive from school leaders.

You place a strong emphasis on the importance of community across the school, particularly as you prepare pupils for the transition to a larger school. The school's 'koinonia' approach is at the heart of the school. 'Koinonia', meaning 'a gift jointly contributed', captures how every pupil and member of staff contributes to the school.

As we visited each classroom, it became clear that you have an astute understanding of each pupil. Parents who contributed to the online survey, Parent View, are in no doubt that pupils are safe and happy in school. An indication of this is how well pupils attend school.

Over time, pupils' absence and persistent absence have been consistently lower than national averages. Governors have a clear and in-depth understanding of how well the school is performing. They have adopted an innovative approach to governance which has been highly effective.

Each governor takes a responsibility for an aspect of the school's development plan and carries out activity and analysis against their designated focus. Governors share their detailed findings with the rest of the governing body so that there is a strong collective understanding. This understanding means that they are well-placed to hold leaders to account and can ask probing, relevant questions.

Consequently, governors have a clear and accurate

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