Maylandsea Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Leaders have established a culture of high expectations of both teachers and pupils.

As a result, the school is providing a good quality of education and continuing to improve. The support for pupils' personal development and welfare is outstanding. Pupils are exceptionally well cared for.

The curriculum supports pupils' personal and academic development effectively. It prepares pupils well for the next stage of their education and life in modern Britain. Leaders use additional funding efficiently.

Disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) achieve well as a result. The sport premium... has been used effectively to promote physical activity and pupils' understanding of healthy lifestyles. The Eveleigh LINK Academy Trust has been very effective in securing improvements in the school.

The school's leaders also contribute to improvement work across the trust. The members of the local governing body know the school well. They provide appropriate levels of support and challenge to leaders to achieve whole-school priorities for improvement.

Leaders are effective in their work. They check the quality of education carefully and act decisively to bring about improvements. The quality of teaching, learning and assessment is consistently good.

As a result, most pupils make good progress in a range of subjects, including English and mathematics. Pupils' behaviour is good. Pupils have positive attitudes to learning, attend regularly and have good relationships with others.

The early years provides a good start to children's education. Children make good progress in their learning and personal, social and emotional development. Inconsistencies in the way a few teachers use assessment information to plan learning activities mean that some activities are not challenging enough.

Assessment in subjects other than English and mathematics is not yet fully developed. This means that it is hard for teachers to identify clearly the next steps in learning for some pupils. Current pupils make good progress.

However, pupils' achievement in reading, writing and mathematics at the end of key stage 2 has varied in recent years, particularly at the higher standards.

Information about this school

Maylandsea Primary School is an average-sized primary school. The school converted to become an academy on 1 October 2015.

It is part of the Eveleigh LINK Academy Trust. The executive headteacher is also headteacher of Maltese Road Primary School. The trust board has overall responsibility for the school and a local governing body carries out certain duties and responsibilities delegated to it by the trust.

The trust provides training and development opportunities for staff. Maylandsea Primary School works collaboratively with schools in the trust and with a group of other local schools. The very large majority of pupils are of White British heritage.

The proportion of pupils with SEND who have an education, health and care plan is well above the national average. The proportion of pupils who are known to be eligible for the pupil premium is lower than that in most primary schools. At its full inspection in May 2013, the overall effectiveness of predecessor school was judged to be good.

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