Bramhall Park Primary School

Overview

Pupils at Nevill Road Infant School feel “happy and safe” and are “enthusiastic when talking about their learning.” The school delivers a “carefully designed an engaging and ambitious curriculum” that supports strong progress, particularly in reading and early years provision. Leaders foster a “caring and nurturing culture” where staff are well supported and pupils behave with care and respect.

Strengths

• The curriculum is “engaging and ambitious,” helping pupils, including those with SEND, to “learn and achieve well across the curriculum.”
• Staff build “strong, positive relationships” with pupils, who are confident that adults will “listen to them and help them if they have any concerns.”
• Reading is prioritised with “carefully chosen” texts, ensuring that “mostly, pupils are fluent, confident readers by the end of Year 2.”
• Pupils demonstrate a “strong awareness of how their emotions can affect the way in which they behave” and are keen to look after each other.
• Staff are “well supported to deliver the curriculum with expertise and confidence” and feel valued by leaders.

Areas to improve

• Support for pupils who struggle with reading is not “effective enough” to help them “catch up as quickly as they should.”
• In a few subjects, pupils’ knowledge of earlier learning is “not as secure as it could be,” hindering their readiness for new concepts.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”