Brisbane Park Infant School

Overview

Brisbane Park Infant School is rated as 'Good' across all inspection categories. The report describes a school where pupils feel happy and confident, supported by "caring staff" and a vision focused on building "self-belief." Leaders maintain high expectations for behaviour and provide effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Strengths

• Pupils are "well mannered and caring," with "calm classrooms" that allow them to focus on learning.
• The curriculum is "ambitious," with "carefully considered support" helping SEND pupils to "progress well."
• Phonics teaching is delivered "consistently well," enabling many pupils to become "fluent readers by the end of key stage 1."
• Effective strategies are in place to reduce persistent absence, and governors "support and challenge the school well."
• Pupils engage in community activities, such as singing to care home residents, which builds their "understanding of empathy."

Areas to improve

• In one or two subjects, activities do not always "build on what they already know," meaning some pupils "do not learn as well as they could."
• In a small number of early years areas, the school has not identified key knowledge in "sufficient detail," hindering staff and leaving some pupils "not as well prepared for the demands of the Year 1 curriculum as they could be."

Safeguarding

The report states that "the arrangements for safeguarding are effective."