Queensmead Primary Academy

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school School leaders are ambitious for the school. Their decisive actions have led to significant improvements in the quality of teaching and learning.

Leaders are passionate about raising aspirations for all pupils. Pupils have regular opportunities to experience and learn about their options for the future. The school's curriculum is well designed to inspire pupils to learn and to broaden their knowledge and skills.

The Greenwood Academies Trust provide effective support and challenge to the school. Trust officers are committed to ensuring that pupils receive an inspirational education. Leadership of the early years is good.

The lead...er is knowledgeable and provides children with a variety of carefully planned learning experiences to ensure that they make good progress. Children make good progress by the end of the Reception Year. Children in the Nursery Year make a good start to their school life.

Good teaching and nurturing help children to make good progress. Relationships between adults and pupils are caring and respectful. Pupils are confident and behave well.

Pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural and personal education is developed well. Pupils are encouraged to be thoughtful and proud citizens of the world. Provision for pupils who have special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities is good.

Pupils receive support which enables them to make good progress. The teaching of phonics is good. The large majority of Year 1 pupils attain the expected standards in the Year 1 phonics screening check.

The quality of teaching and learning across the school is good. However, teachers are not consistently accurate in their use of assessment information. They do not always ensure that the most able pupils are sufficiently challenged in their writing and mathematics.

Plans to establish and develop leadership of subjects other than English and mathematics are in the early stages of development. Too few disadvantaged pupils make good progress by the end of key stage 2.

Information about this school

The school is a larger than average-sized primary school with nursery provision.

A new principal has been appointed since the last inspection. The school is part of the Greenwood Academies Trust. The trust provides a variety of services and support to the school.

The majority of pupils are from White British backgrounds. The proportion of pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds is above the national average. The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is in line with the national average.

The proportion of pupils eligible for the pupil premium is above the national average. The proportion of pupils who have SEN and/or disabilities is above the national average. The school meets the current government floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' progress.