Ashgrove Primary School

Overview

Ashgrove Primary School continues to demonstrate the capacity to identify and bring about improvement in the interest of all learners. The inspection confirmed that the school effectively uses data and self-evaluation to drive development, with most children attaining expected levels in literacy and numeracy by the end of Key Stage 2.

Strengths

• The school development plan is informed by the “effective analysis and synthesis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data.”
• A “comprehensive system for assessing, monitoring, evaluating and target-setting” is used to good effect across the school.
• Two-fifths of observed lessons were “very good,” with the “Rights Respecting School ethos” infused in learning, leading to respectful engagement.
• Children show “appropriate progression in learning” in literacy and numeracy, with Year 7 pupils demonstrating “developing fluency and accuracy” in reading.

Areas to improve

• The school needs to “update the relevant policies and risk assessments to reflect more accurately current DE guidance and school practice.”
• Staff have identified “comprehension of reading” as an area of literacy to be further developed.

Safeguarding

The report states that arrangements for safeguarding children “reflect broadly the guidance from the Department of Education (DE).”