Broom Cottages Primary & Nursery School

Overview: Broom Cottages Primary & Nursery School is a happy, caring place where pupils enjoy learning and playing together. Leaders have established positive partnerships with families, and pupils feel listened to and safe.

Strengths:

• Pupils behave well in and out of lessons, working hard and listening carefully to adults.
• The school has a strong culture of safety, with leaders ensuring that all record-keeping, checks, and processes are robust.
• Pupils learn about equality, positive relationships, and how to recognise bullying, and are aware of online dangers and how to seek help.
• The school has a broad and well-planned curriculum, with subject leaders ensuring that teachers can deliver the curriculum effectively.
• Pupils have regular opportunities to apply their learning through solving problems, and leaders have prioritised the teaching of reading.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders’ priorities for improving the school do not always reflect the barriers to learning that many pupils face, such as poor communication skills and low self-confidence.
• In some subjects, such as science and history, teachers are unsure whether pupils have learned all the intended subject content, making it difficult for leaders to identify which parts of the curriculum to improve.
• Leaders should review their priorities for the school and carry out plans to strengthen assessment, so that teachers use a range of strategies to regularly check pupils’ learning.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders ensuring a strong culture of safety, robust record-keeping, and well-trained staff to identify and report any issues that might cause concern.