Borestone Primary School

Overview

The inspection highlights a school with a "warm, nurturing and inclusive ethos" where children are described as "confident, happy" and proud of their community. While wellbeing is rated as "good", other quality indicators are evaluated as "satisfactory", with specific areas for improvement identified in leadership, teaching, and curriculum development.

Strengths

• Staff demonstrate care and support, ensuring everyone is "fully included in the life of the school".
• Successful approaches to wellbeing lead to children who "behave well and are keen to learn".
• Children "understand and talk well about the different aspects of their wellbeing" with effective staff support.

Areas to improve

• Strengthen remits of promoted staff to improve "approaches to self-evaluation" and ensure change is embedded.
• Improve learning, teaching, and assessment to ensure "consistently high-quality learning experiences" set at the right level.
• Increase opportunities for children to use literacy and numeracy skills in relevant contexts to raise attainment.
• Develop a curriculum which "reflects the context of the school and meets the needs of all learners".

Safeguarding

The report states that the nursery class was not included in this inspection as it had been inspected by the Care Inspectorate within the past 18 months.