Beechwood Primary School and Nursery

Overview: Beechwood Primary School and Nursery is a school that has achieved an 'Exceptional' rating, with leaders and staff working above the standard expected of them. The school has a strong culture of safeguarding, with leaders and staff fulfilling their responsibilities and creating an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.

Strengths:

• Attendance has risen over the last three years, with leaders acting fast to support pupils who are absent.
• Pupils behave well and move calmly around school, with staff using behaviour routines with kindness and consistency.
• The curriculum is broad and ambitious, giving pupils the knowledge they need for their next steps.
• Leaders and staff know pupils' needs well and adapt teaching to support disadvantaged pupils, those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and pupils who are learning English.
• Pupils learn about healthy relationships and safety in an age-appropriate way, with staff providing enriching opportunities to broaden their horizons.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should ensure that staff, including in the early years, provide focused, regular support to pupils so that they develop consistently secure key transcription skills.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and staff fulfilling their responsibilities and creating an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.