Kaizen Primary School

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About Kaizen Primary School


Name Kaizen Primary School
Website http://www.kaizen.newham.sch.uk
Inspections
Ofsted Inspections
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Headteacher Ms Barbara Sims
Address Elkington Road, London, E13 8LF
Phone Number 02074736890
Phase Academy
Type Academy converter
Age Range 3-11
Religious Character Does not apply
Gender Mixed
Number of Pupils 438
Local Authority Newham
Highlights from Latest Inspection
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Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an outstanding school. Inclusive, reflective, creative and innovative leadership is relentless in driving school improvement. Through their shared expertise, leaders make a significant contribution to the development of other schools.

Leaders work as a tightly knit team to implement highly effective strategies to improve teaching. They carefully put in place individual support programmes to improve teachers' performance. The high quality of much of the teaching has a considerable impact on the pupils' learning.

Given the relative inexperience of most teachers, this is a great testament to their response to the training and guidance of school leaders. T...he highly effective governing body is thoughtful, reflective, and challenging of school leaders. Governors help to shape the school's direction and continually check that their aims for the school are being met.

Pupils make rapid progress in the development of key skills of literacy and numeracy, but particularly their writing. Attainment is rising as increasing numbers of pupils work beyond levels expected for their age. Pupils with specific learning needs thrive in a school that ensures their physical, social, emotional and academic needs are very carefully met.

A closely woven net of care and support catches concerns early and is highly responsive to individual needs and circumstances. The highly effective team of support staff, particularly those working with pupils with acute learning difficulties or who are new to speaking English, makes a major contribution to learning. Children greatly enjoy learning in the early years and make rapid progress in all areas of their development, particularly language and communication.

Pupils, from the most to the least able, show a real love of learning and strive not to give up in the face of adversity. Behaviour around the school is impeccable. Pupils take great pride in the school environment and treat it with care and respect.

They have a very mature and considerate approach to all those around them, other pupils and adults alike. Pupils say they feel very safe in school because : they know how vigilant staff are in taking care of them. Attendance has steadily risen since the school's last inspection and is now above average.

Leaders are very successful in meeting the needs of disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils through the close and constructive partnership with home. The way subjects are organised and taught makes the pupils' learning exciting and interesting. Every opportunity is taken to promote the pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development as well as their understanding of the part they play in modern Britain.

Information about this school

This school is well above average in size, compared with other primary schools. More than four fifths of pupils are from a wide range of minority ethnic backgrounds. This figure is high.

Two thirds of pupils speak English as an additional language. This figure is well above average. Most pupils are disadvantaged and supported by funding through the pupil premium.

This is additional government funding which, in this school, supports pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is well above average. The proportion of pupils who join or leave part-way through their primary education is much higher than in most primary schools.

The Nursery caters for 78 children on a part-time basis and has 69 currently on roll. Children attend the two Reception classes full-time. The school provides daily before-school and after-school clubs.

The school works in partnership with The East London Early Years Partnership and Tollgate Teaching School Alliance. The school has experienced very high staff turnover since its last inspection. One of the joint headteachers embarked on a consultancy career at the end of the summer term 2014, two senior leaders have become headteachers, several staff have moved into leadership roles and a majority of class teachers left in the last academic year.

Temporary arrangements had to be put in place at the time and 12 new teachers were appointed from September 2014. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in English and mathematics by the end of Year 6..


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