Stamford Park Primary School

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About Stamford Park Primary School


Name Stamford Park Primary School
Inspections
Ofsted Inspections
Headteacher Mrs Sarah Price
Address Cedar Road, Hale, Altrincham, WA15 9JB
Phone Number 01619283608
Phase Primary
Type Community school
Age Range 3-11
Religious Character Does not apply
Gender Mixed
Number of Pupils 483
Local Authority Trafford
Highlights from Latest Inspection

Main findings

In accordance with section 13(4) of the Education Act 2005, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector is of the opinion that the school no longer requires a notice to improve. It is now providing a good standard of education. The inspection of September 2009 required the school to ensure that safeguarding requirements are fully met, develop its contribution to community cohesion and improve the quality of teaching and curricular provision from satisfactory to good.

The school has made good progress with all these areas for improvement. It has rapidly improved the quality of provision, so that teaching and the curriculum are now mostly good. It has sustained pupils' high levels of achievement and improved other pu...pils' outcomes so that all are now outstanding.

The school has good capacity to build on the improvements and to sustain pupils' high attainment. The restructured senior leadership team and the governing body are providing a good steer to drive through improvements. They have the full support of staff, who are ambitious for the school and determined to build on good practices.

Pupils are highly motivated, with excellent attitudes to learning and a strong desire to succeed. Pupils' excellent personal attributes, combined with mostly good quality provision, create a highly positive ethos for learning. Pupils feel well cared for and extremely safe; they are happy and supportive of one another.

They achieve consistently high attainment in their work and their personal development is outstanding. Safeguarding procedures have been thoroughly reviewed and are now good. Plans to promote community cohesion have progressed well and are effectively supported by a range of partnerships within the local community and with schools in different contexts.

The vast majority of parents and carers, who returned questionnaires, are pleased with their children's experience, stating for example, 'the school has provided my children with an excellent, safe, all-round education.' However, a significant minority expressed concerns that school leaders take insufficient account of their views and could do more to ensure the school provides the best quality education. School leaders and the governing body have taken some steps to improve communication but this remains an area for further development.

Revisions to the curriculum have supported staff in introducing more creative and exciting approaches to teaching and learning. Both staff and pupils are enjoying themed units of work and increased engagement in research, debate, creative and independent learning across the curriculum. The changes are at early stages and there is further work to be done to ensure pupils' skills are developed and assessed across the full range of subjects, including for example, history, geography and design and technology.

Teaching is mostly good, supporting pupils' good progress in key areas of learning. There are some outstanding aspects which provide effective models for further improvement, and some teaching that is satisfactory. Leaders regularly observe lessons and have rightly identified that teachers are using a fuller range of teaching approaches.

However, whilst monitoring records reinforce good practice, they do not give a clear indication of the quality of the lesson, nor do they identify aspects that could be improved further. Consequently, there are some missed opportunities to secure further improvement and provide professional development. Self-evaluation is largely accurate but lacks a systematic approach to ensure that findings from monitoring and pupils' progress tracking inform planning for strategic improvement.

Information about the school

Stamford Park is larger than the average size junior school. The proportion of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals is well below average. The majority of pupils are from White British backgrounds, and others are from a wide range of different minority ethnic groups.

A few speak English as an additional language. A lower than average proportion of pupils has special educational needs and/or disabilities or a statement of special educational needs. The school has a number of awards including Eco Awards, Artsmark, Activemark Gold, Enhanced Healthy School status and a British Council International Award.

A privately run out-of-school provision, Kool Kids', uses the school premises. This was inspected in May 2009 and the report is available on the Ofsted website. The school was given a notice to improve in September 2009 because it had not kept up-to-date records of safeguarding checks.

Other aspects of provision were found to be satisfactory. Since that inspection, four members of staff have left the school and two new teachers have joined. The roles of leaders and managers have been reviewed.

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