Sutton-in-Craven Community Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Leaders, including governors, have taken effective action to address the issues raised at the last inspection. As a result, the quality of teaching has improved and more pupils are now achieving well. Governance is now strong.

Governors understand school priorities and challenge rigorously to ensure that the school provides the best for all pupils. Staff work effectively as a team. They observe each other's practice in the classroom and regularly look at pupils' work together.

As a result, teaching has improved. Teachers encourage pupils to build on what they already know, to make links across the curriculum and to challenge themselves. A... focus on improving vocabulary is part of a culture of raising expectations.

Pupils are proud of their school. They benefit from a curriculum which encourages them to think and to learn about the wider world, and which contributes strongly to their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Leaders recognise that the next step is to ensure that knowledge and skills are developed consistently well in all curriculum areas.

Approaches to teaching mathematics and reading are consistent and coherent in all classes. Consequently, more pupils across the school are now making better progress and achieving higher standards, although some differences remain in pupils' progress in mathematics. The basic skills of writing, such as handwriting and spelling, are not always embedded well enough to support consistently strong progress in writing for all pupils.

Leadership and teaching in the early years are enabling children to make good progress. Increasing proportions of children are ready to make a strong start to key stage 1. Most pupils behave well.

Leaders take effective action to manage the behaviour of the very small number of pupils who present challenging behaviour. Overall, standards are rising across the school and are now broadly average at the end of key stage 2. However, there is still room for improvement to ensure that all groups, including the most able and disadvantaged pupils, make the progress of which they are capable.

Information about this school

This is a smaller-than-average primary school. The majority of pupils are of White British heritage. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils eligible for pupil premium funding is below the national average.

The proportion of pupils with SEN is below the national average. The proportion of pupils learning English as an additional language is below the national average. The school manages a breakfast and after-school club.