West Hill Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Leaders' good awareness of the school's strengths and weaknesses has guided effective training and support for staff.

This in turn has improved teaching and achievement. Pupils' progress has accelerated over the last three years, and is now good. By the end of Year 6, attainment is above average.

Pupils who find learning difficult are supported well in class and through carefully adapted additional support. As a result they achieve as well as other pupils. The large majority of teaching is good, and some is outstanding.

Expectations of what pupils can achieve are increasing as teachers plan lessons that help pupils to build succ...essfully on what they have learnt before. Teachers value pupils' efforts in lessons. This raises pupils' self-esteem and promotes good attitudes to learning.

Pupils are polite, courteous and proud of their school. They behave well and have a good understanding of how to stay safe. Attendance is above average.

Pupils are provided with a wide range of interesting and motivating experiences that support their learning in all subjects. Music is exceptionally strong and the school is rightly proud of its steel band, which regularly performs to audiences outside school. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Attainment in writing is not quite as good as in reading and mathematics.

The way teachers mark pupils' work and give them opportunities pupils to check their own work is not consistently good across the school.

Information about this school

The school is average in size but pupil numbers are increasing. The vast majority of pupils are of White British heritage, with fewer pupils than average from other ethnic groups.

Very few pupils are at the early stages of speaking English as an additional language. The proportion of pupils supported at school action is lower than that found nationally. The proportion of pupils supported by school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is similar to the national average.

The most frequently identified needs are speech, language and communication difficulties. The proportion of pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals and for whom the school receives additional income (the pupil premium) is average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress.

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