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This is a good school The headteacher's passionate and focused determination to raise standards has led to rapid improvements in the quality of teaching, learning and assessment. The school's vision, 'ensuring every child achieves', is central to the work of senior leaders and reflected in their effective monitoring systems that ensure pupils achieve well. The trust and the local governing body are effective in supporting and challenging leaders.
They know the school well because they visit regularly and focus their work on raising standards. Teaching, learning and assessment are good and, consequently, pupils now make better progress in writing and mathematics. Pupils... enjoy school.
Their attitudes to learning are good and they show respect and courtesy towards one another in class and around the school. Pupils take great pride in their work and this is reflected in the good-quality presentation in their books. The school's core values are well understood, reflected in daily routines and relationships and promoted around the school in the highly effective presentations and displays.
The majority of parents and carers are supportive and positive about the school. They said that they feel their children are safe, happy and are making good progress. Parents value the opportunities they have to be involved in activities at the school.
Mathematics teaching has improved significantly. Pupils' progress overall is now well above the national average. Disadvantaged pupils' progress in mathematics, writing and reading has improved because the school uses its additional funding effectively to make a difference to these pupils.
Pupils who have special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities are supported well by teaching assistants, who help them make strong progress in lessons. The school is focused on continuing to improve the teaching of reading to secure consistently good achievement in all classes. Challenging, extending and monitoring most-able pupils, so that they progress as rapidly as others, is a priority for the school.
Assessment and monitoring systems work well for English and mathematics, but leaders do not have similar information to judge accurately how well pupils are achieving in the wider curriculum.
Information about this school
Holt Farm is an average-sized junior school. The school is part of the South East Essex Academy Trust.
The majority of pupils are of White British heritage. Very few pupils speak English as an additional language. The proportion of pupils from ethnic minorities is below average.
The proportion of pupils who have SEN and/or disabilities is above average. The proportion of pupils supported by the pupil premium is above average. The school meets current floor standards in 2017, which are the minimum expectations for pupils' achievement.
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