Whingate Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Pupils' behaviour and attitudes to learning are outstanding.

Pupils are safe and secure. They say that they feel safe and parents and staff agree. Levels of attendance at the school are above those in other schools and have been so over a sustained period of time.

The headteacher relentlessly pursues improvements in teaching so that achievement is rising and the school is improving. The governing body has a thorough and detailed understanding of the school's performance and is highly effective in holding the headteacher and middle leaders to account. The curriculum provides for pupils' different needs exceptionally well.

The car...efully planned activities, such as the small groups or one-to-ones, ensure pupils can successfully learn different skills. Achievement is good in each stage in the school. Pupils, including the most able, achieve well.

In 2013, from their individual starting points, pupils made good progress in reading and writing and outstanding progress in mathematics by the end of Key Stage 2. Most teaching is good and some is outstanding. Teachers plan stimulating lessons that challenge pupils' different abilities well.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : At times, pupils are not making the most of the detailed feedback given to them by teachers. For example, comments about improvements made in books are not always followed up by pupils. In some lessons, the opportunity to accelerate pupils' progress even further is limited when pupils are expected to do work that they already understand instead of moving quickly onto the next new learning.

Information about this school

The school is much larger than the average-sized primary school. The very large majority of pupils are of White British heritage. The proportion of pupils supported through school action is average.

The proportion supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is also average. The proportion of pupils eligible for the pupil premium funding is much higher than the national average. The pupil premium is additional funding for those pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals, children from service families and those children who are looked after by the local authority.

There are two breakfast clubs run by the school on the site. The school is part of the Inner West Family of Schools, a partnership of local schools. A very small proportion of pupils attend alternative provision at the ABC Behaviour Unit and Oasis, both run by the local authority.

In the last two years, almost half of the teachers have left or joined the school. The school provides advice on supporting newly qualified teachers to other schools. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in English and mathematics by the end of Year 6.

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