Ravensthorpe Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Senior leaders provide highly effective leadership and work closely with governors to continuously drive school improvement forward, particularly in teaching and learning. Together, they have developed a strong culture for good teaching, learning and behaviour across the school.

They are making sure the school continues to improve. Leaders are promoting pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, including their physical well-being, effectively. Teaching and learning are good across the school.

Teachers have high expectations for learning and behaviour. They plan interesting activities and make good use of well-chosen resou...rces to stimulate pupils' learning. Teachers and teaching assistants work well together to maintain strong relationships with pupils and manage their behaviour well.

They create a positive ethos for learning. Pupils' behaviour is good in lessons and across the school. They are polite and courteous to all adults and have very positive attitudes to learning.

Their attendance and punctuality are good. Staff provide good pastoral care to promote pupils' welfare effectively. Safeguarding is effective.

Pupils in all year groups make good progress from their different starting points in reading, writing and mathematics, and across a wide range of subjects and activities. There are no significant differences in the progress of any groups of pupils. Good leadership, teaching and learning with a range of well-planned learning opportunities are enabling children in the early years to make good progress in all areas of learning.

Their behaviour is good and they stay safe. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Occasionally, disabled pupils and those with special educational needs are given tasks that are too difficult, which limits their progress and achievement. Pupils at Key Stage 1 do not always deepen their mathematical reasoning because occasionally teachers miss the opportunity to do so.

Subject leaders have not fully developed nor implemented systems for recording and tracking the progress of pupils in their subjects.

Information about this school

Ravensthorpe is an average-sized primary school. The proportions of pupils from minority ethnic groups and those who speak English as an additional language are well above average.

The majority of these pupils originate from Eastern European countries and a significant number of them are at an early stage of learning English. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils for whom the school receives pupil premium funding is above average. This is additional funding to support pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals and those looked after by the local authority.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is above average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations set for pupils' attainment and progress in English and mathematics at the end of Year 6. More pupils than average start or leave the school part of the way through their primary education.

Since the previous inspection, there has been a significant turnover of staff, with 50% new teachers since September 2015. A new Chair of the Governing Body is in place. A new extension and refurbishment of the school were completed in 2015 to prepare for the proposed expansion of the school to two forms of entry by 2020.

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