Werrington Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Good leadership and management by the headteacher and other leaders ensure that this school is improving rapidly.

Leaders and managers, including governors, are having a positive impact on teaching and pupils' achievement. The school's arrangements for keeping pupils safe are outstanding because all leaders and other staff are vigilant in their implementation of the checks and other procedures set out in the school's safeguarding procedures. Pupils are polite and behave well at all times of the day.

They enjoy school and feel well-prepared for the next stage of their education. Support for disabled pupils and those who have special educa...tional needs is well-organised and very effective. Provision for the pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is a strength in the school's provision.

As a result pupils are friendly and respectful. Teaching is good, because pupils are motivated to learn and there are strong relationships between staff and the pupils they teach. Pupils' attainment is above average by the end of Year 6 in reading, writing and mathematics.

Pupils make good progress across the school resulting in good achievement overall. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Teachers do not always expect enough from pupils in their written work in science and topic. Teachers do not consistently use their marking in these subjects to encourage pupils to write in sufficient depth.

Pupils do not use what they have learned in mathematics to help solve problems in other subjects sufficiently. Children in the Early Years Foundation Stage do not always work purposefully and learn quickly when they are working on activities they have chosen for themselves.

Information about this school

Werrington Primary School is much larger than the average-sized primary school.

In the Early Years Foundation Stage there are two full-time Reception classes. Most pupils are White British. The proportion of pupils for whom the school receives the pupil premium, which is additional funding for pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and children who are looked after by the local authority, is below average at one in seven pupils.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is broadly average at one in six pupils. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics. The headteacher is a Local Leader of Education and has supported another school in the area.

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