Ashburton Primary School

Overview

Pupils “love to attend” this school, entering each day with a “thirst for learning” and feeling “super safe.” The inspection found the school to be “highly inclusive,” with leaders demonstrating clear ambition for a high-quality education and staff providing effective support for pupils’ personal development and well-being.

Strengths

• Pupils are “warmly welcomed by the caring staff” and receive timely help to become successful learners.
• The school is “highly inclusive,” with a ‘nurture classroom’ helping pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities to build confidence.
• Pupils read widely and regularly, becoming “confident and fluent readers” through diligent phonics and reading curriculums.
• Staff effectively identify and remedy misconceptions in most subjects, such as correcting number formation in mathematics.
• Leaders ensure pupils are prepared for their next steps, demonstrating “fundamental British values” and learning to keep physically and mentally healthy.

Areas to improve

• Leaders need to ensure pupils are supported to “know and remember more in all subjects,” as some do not recall important content in the long term.
• Leaders should ensure that checks on curriculum quality “inform future planning” to maintain high standards across all subjects, as some are more developed than others.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders being “tenacious in their approach to keeping pupils safe” and staff understanding that safeguarding is the responsibility of “everybody every day.”