Trewidland Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

This is a very welcoming and friendly community which values and treats all pupils equally. Trewidland has several exemplary features, such as pupils' behaviour and attitudes to learning and high quality care and safeguarding of pupils' welfare. Pupils achieve well in response to good teaching that typically provides learning tasks and support that are closely matched to pupils' differing needs and abilities.

Teachers are particularly successful in extending pupils' speaking, listening and writing skills. Pupils commit themselves wholeheartedly to their work and really enjoy their time and do well at school. In keeping with the school's ...ethos of respecting one's-self and others, pupils help each other to learn and their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is also very strong.

Skilled teamwork between staff and close links with the community and other schools have sustained the school's good improvement since the last inspection. Leaders and managers, including governors, provide strong leadership and direction that continues to raise pupils' achievements. The headteacher and governors promote excellent links with parents that underpin the pupils' above average attendance and full participation in the good range of learning activities provided by the school.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : Despite good improvement, some pupils do not develop their basic number skills quickly enough. Lesson introductions sometimes continue for too long limiting the pupils' ability to find things out for themselves. Pupils' skills in checking their own work to bring improvement are not sufficiently developed as they move through the school.

Information about this school

This school is below average in size. All pupils attending the school are of White British heritage. The proportion of disabled pupils and those with special educational needs supported through school action is above the national average.

The proportion supported by school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is broadly average. The proportion of pupils known to be eligible for the pupil premium (which provides additional funding for children in local authority care and those known to be eligible for free school meals) is below average. The proportion of pupils joining or leaving the school at other than the normal times is above average.

The Early Years Foundation Stage is comprised of one mixed-aged Reception and Years 1 and 2 class. Other pupils are taught in separate Years 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 classes each morning and in one combined Years 3 to 6 class during the afternoon sessions. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set out the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress.

The school is a Foundation school and a member of the Liskeard Community Learning Trust, which at present comprises four local schools. The school retains its own governing body. At the beginning of this spring term the headteacher of Trewidland Primary School took up the position as acting part-time executive headteacher of Quethiock Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, sharing his duties equally across both schools.