Luckington Community School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. The staff of this inclusive and caring community school ensure that pupils feel safe and valued. Pupils make good and improving progress in reading, writing and mathematics due to the good teaching they receive.

The school takes effective steps to promote all pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. This helps all pupils to develop the skills and personal qualities needed to work with others in the school and the community. Parents, pupils and staff are extremely positive about all aspects of the school.

Teachers have strong subject knowledge and use this to plan interesting lessons for the pupils. Pupils are proud of t...heir school and have excellent behaviour. They take on responsibilities within the school as they get older and this supports their growing independence.

Pupils value highly the caring culture of their school. The headteacher and governors have a good knowledge of the school and have taken prompt action to ensure that standards of teaching remain high. Provision in the Early Years Foundation Stage is good.

Children learn well from sharing the experiences of the older pupils in the same class. The school prepares pupils very well for the next stage in their education and parents report how well older siblings have settled into their new school. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Although some disadvantaged pupils make good progress they are not yet catching up with the performance of other pupils nationally or in the school, particularly in mathematics.

Teaching is not yet consistently outstanding.

Information about this school

This is a much smaller-than-average sized primary school with two mixed-age classes. The proportion of disabled pupils and those with special educational needs supported at school action is around average.

The school provides full-time Early Years Foundation Stage provision. There is a separately managed pre-school on the school site. The proportion of pupils eligible for the additional funding known as the pupil premium is well below average.

The pupil premium is additional funding for pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals and children who are looked after by the local authority. The school meets the government's current floor standard, which sets the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress by the end of Year 6. There have been staff changes on a temporary basis during the past year.

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