Padbury Church of England School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Attainment is well above average at the end of Key Stage 1, and well above expectations in Year 4, because pupils make good progress from their different starting points.

Children get off to a good start in Reception because they are given stimulating work to do. Teaching is consistently good, with some outstanding teaching in Key Stage 1. Teachers share their ideas and support one another in becoming even better.

Pupils have extremely positive attitudes to learning. Their behaviour is outstanding, both in class and around the school, and pupils say they feel very safe. The excellent leadership of the headteacher inspires the whole schoo...l community to do the best it can.

There is a very strong team of staff, together with an effective governing body; they have worked together to improve teaching and raise achievement successfully. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Teachers do not consistently check that pupils have responded to their helpful marking and acted upon it. Within school, despite all pupils doing extremely well, girls tend to outperform boys in mathematics.

Information about this school

The school is a smaller-than-average-sized primary school. It has grown rapidly in recent years. Reception children are taught with Year 1 pupils.

There is also one mixed-age class in Key Stage 2. Year 2 are taught as a single year group. Most pupils come from White British backgrounds.

The proportion of pupils known to be eligible for the pupil premium (which provides additional funding for children in local authority care, those known to be eligible for free school meals and those from service families) is very low. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs supported through school action is very low. The proportion supported at school action plus, or with a statement of special educational needs, is also very low.

The school will become an all-through primary in September 2014 when the present Year 5 pupils stay on to become its first Year 6 cohort. The headteacher was appointed in September 2010. The school shares its site with a privately-run pre-school, which is inspected separately.

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