Broughton Central P School

Overview

The inspection found a “friendly and welcoming environment” with “positive relationships” where children feel “safe, happy and looked after.” However, the report identifies significant weaknesses in primary leadership, learning, teaching, and assessment, requiring additional support and a follow-up inspection within one year.

Strengths

• A “friendly and welcoming environment” with “positive relationships between all members of the school community.”
• “Respectful, settled and polite children” who “listen attentively” and “co-operate well when playing and learning.”
• “High quality learning experiences in the nursery indoor environment” where staff help children “make good progress.”
• Nursery evaluations for “learning, teaching and assessment,” “ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion,” and “securing children’s progress” were rated “good.”

Areas to improve

• “Improve approaches to leadership of change” by ensuring “key improvement priorities are identified through robust self-evaluation.”
• “Improve the overall quality of learning and teaching in the school” to better meet children’s needs and raise attainment.
• “Improve approaches to planning learning and teaching” and “assessment” to ensure tasks are “appropriately matched to all children’s level of ability.”

Safeguarding

The report states that “children feel safe, happy and looked after” within the school’s “friendly and welcoming environment.”