Ashby Hastings Primary School

Overview

Ashby Hastings Primary School is described as a “happy and inclusive school” where pupils are “proud members of this caring school.” The inspection found that the school provides a high-quality education, with strong community ethos and positive relationships between pupils and staff.

Strengths

• Pupils are “confident, polite and curious,” enjoying “strong, positive relationships” with teachers and peers.
• The curriculum is “carefully constructed” to be “equally ambitious” for all pupils, including those in mixed-aged classes and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• The early reading programme enables “most pupils to learn to read precisely,” with “precise support” for those who struggle.
• Staff feel “trusted and respected” as professionals, contributing to high morale and effective leadership.
• Pupils demonstrate a “strong sense of equity, equality and fairness” and are taught how to regulate their emotions.

Areas to improve

• Occasionally, activities are “not precisely matched to the school’s planned curriculum,” meaning pupils’ knowledge is “not as secure as it could be.”
• The school needs to ensure systems for the whole curriculum are “fully embedded and followed consistently” as it grows.
• A few families continue to require support to meet the school’s ambitions for daily attendance and punctuality.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”