Brockmoor Primary School

Overview

Brockmoor Primary School is described as a “calm and orderly place” where pupils are “happy, confident” and feel safe. Leaders and governors are “ambitious” for pupil achievement, fostering a strong sense of pastoral care and community engagement. The school has moved from a previous rating of ‘Requires improvement’ to ‘Good’ across all inspection categories.

Strengths

• Pupils benefit from a “wide range of experiences beyond the classroom,” including community projects and career visits, which build responsibility.
• The curriculum is “well planned and sequenced,” ensuring that “the things pupils learn build on what they have learned before.”
• Reading is a priority with an “effective daily reading programme” in place, resulting in most pupils becoming “confident, fluent readers.”
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) “achieve well” and are “fully involved in all aspects of school life” due to high-quality support.
• Staff workload is managed effectively, with leaders providing “detailed plans on how to teach all subjects” and maintaining an “open-door policy.”

Areas to improve

• Leaders must ensure all subject leaders receive adequate training and coaching, as the use of assessment to identify learning gaps is “less developed, typically in the foundation subjects.”

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are “effective,” with staff reporting concerns confidently and pupils taught how to keep themselves safe, ensuring they “feel safe.”