Bader Primary School

Overview

Bader Primary School provides an education that meets the expected standard across most areas, with personal development and wellbeing rated at a strong standard. The report highlights a "highly positive staff culture" and a curriculum that is "broad and balanced," ensuring pupils are "well prepared for their secondary education." While safeguarding standards are met, leaders are urged to refine specific aspects of teaching adaptations and monitoring to maximise impact for all pupils.

Strengths

• The personal development programme is of "high quality," helping pupils build a "depth of knowledge and understanding about relationships and the wider world."
• Pupils behave well in a "calm, orderly and respectful environment," where bullying is rare and staff model "high expectations."
• Leaders have established a "highly positive staff culture" that prioritises wellbeing and ensures workload is manageable.
• The school offers a "wealth of opportunities" for enrichment, including residential trips and arts activities, which motivate pupils to succeed.
• Inclusion practices are "well-considered," with timely support ensuring pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities achieve well from their starting points.

Areas to improve

• Leaders should strengthen how staff make adaptations to teaching to better promote learning for disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Leaders’ monitoring and evaluation of improvement actions, such as those for phonics and writing, are "not as rigorous as they could be," reducing the timeliness of strategy adjustments.
• In the early years, provision is sometimes "not as purposeful as it could be" in developing children’s number skills or engaging them in high-quality talk.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an "open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility" and concerns are actively identified and managed.