Bassett Green Primary School

Overview: Bassett Green Primary School is a well-performing school where pupils achieve well and are prepared for their next steps in education. The school has a strong culture of care and kindness, and leaders are highly ambitious for pupils.

Strengths:

• Pupils achieve well and are prepared for their next steps in education.
• The school has a strong culture of care and kindness.
• Leaders are highly ambitious for pupils.
• The curriculum is broad and sets out the knowledge and skills that pupils need to learn.
• Leaders have appropriate oversight of the quality of teaching.
• Staff benefit from regular professional learning, which builds their expertise.
• Pupils use resources across the curriculum with confidence and independence.
• Leaders promote inclusive practice through ongoing professional learning for staff.
• Pupils show an appreciation of diversity and difference.
• Pupils develop an understanding of right and wrong.
• Pupils learn how to behave in the community through the school's status as a 'school of sanctuary'.

Areas to improve:

• The school's strategies for improving attendance and reducing persistent absence are not reaching all groups of pupils.
• There is variability in how well children are supported with their language and vocabulary development across all areas of their learning.
• Teachers do not use assessment and checks on pupils' learning to inform subsequent teaching and adaptations to the curriculum so that pupils progress well across all subjects.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.