Warren Dell Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

• Pupils achieve well and make good progress. Attainment is rising and progress is accelerating. • Teaching and learning are good and sometimes outstanding.

• Excellent pastoral and academic support for pupils enables them to make good progress, sustains positive attitudes to learning and enhances their well-being. • The curriculum is rich and broad. It develops pupils' basic skills well.

Topics are exciting and based on pupils' interests and enthusiasms. • Pupils' behaviour is good. They are eager to learn, and feel safe in school.

• The school has a strong commitment to staff development in order to further improve th...e quality of teaching and raise pupils' attainment. • The very effective senior leadership team has been highly successful in communicating its members' vision for the school through their relentless drive for improvement. • The governors know the school very well.

They robustly hold it to account for how well pupils are doing. It is not yet an outstanding school because : • Not enough teaching is outstanding. Some • Achievement over time is not high across all pupils at the early stages of learning English subjects or for all groups of pupils.

Pupils' do not always make good progress in lessons. handwriting, grammar and spelling are not • Improvement planning does not have a sharp good enough. enough focus on pupils' achievement.

Information about this school

• Warren Dell Primary School is smaller than the average-sized primary school. • The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs supported at school action is below the national average. The proportion supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is above average.

• There is on-site pre-school provision. This is not managed by the governing body and was inspected separately in October 2013. • The proportion of pupils supported through the pupil premium is about twice the national average.

The pupil premium is additional funding for specific groups of pupils such as those known to be eligible for free school meals and children in local authority care. • The proportion of pupils who leave or join partway through their primary school education is higher than average. • The proportion of pupils from minority ethnic groups is above average, the largest being pupils of any other White background with small numbers from a range of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

• The proportion of pupils who speak a first language other than English is above average. • The school meets the government floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress. • The headteacher is providing support for leadership and management in another local primary school.