Stanground St Johns CofE Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The headteacher provides strong and effective leadership. Her clear vision, and commitment to ensuring that all pupils do well, helps to ensure that the school continues to improve.

The school is welcoming and inclusive. Pupils are taught to value the differences between people. They understand that it is wrong to discriminate against other people on the basis of their physical, or other, characteristics.

Safeguarding arrangements are effective. Strong practices are in place to keep pupils safe and to address child protection concerns in a timely fashion. Teaching is good overall and it is improving throughout the school.

Leaders... focus well on ensuring that standards of teaching are high and that weaknesses are tackled quickly. Leaders and governors have ensured that the school has an appropriate curriculum and that this is reviewed regularly. Relationships are very strong.

As a result, classrooms are happy places where pupils feel supported and cared for. Pupils behave very well, both in their classrooms and during less formal parts of the day. They have good attitudes to learning and work hard.

Children get off to a good start in the early years class. They make good progress from their individual starting points and learn the school's rules quickly. Outcomes are good.

Leaders have put appropriate measures in place to improve previously weaker areas and these are having a positive effect on raising standards for current pupils. Provision for pupils who have special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities is not as strong in their classrooms as in the additional sessions that they receive to meet their individual needs. Governors do not hold leaders to account well enough.

They do not routinely ask challenging questions of leaders, particularly about pupils' outcomes and the quality of teaching and learning. Leaders of individual subjects have too little impact on improving standards in the subjects they are responsible for. Leaders are not able to track the progress pupils make in subjects other than English and mathematics.

Information about this school

The school became a sponsor-led academy in November 2013. It is sponsored by the Diocese of Ely Multi-Academy Trust (DEMAT). The school has a local governing body that acts as its appropriate authority.

The local governing body is responsible to DEMAT's trust board. The school meets current floor standards. These are the minimum standards, set by the government, for pupils' progress and attainment.

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