Broughton Primary School

Overview: Broughton Primary School continues to be a good school, providing a calm and friendly environment where pupils thrive and achieve well. Pupils are happy and eager to learn, and staff care about them, helping them to feel safe in school.

Strengths:

• The curriculum is thoughtfully designed to meet the needs of the small school, being ambitious and carefully ordered from the early years to Year 6.
• Staff frequently check what pupils know and remember, enabling them to quickly identify and resolve any misconceptions.
• The school accurately identifies the needs of pupils with SEND early and works effectively with different agencies and professionals to provide the necessary support.
• A love of reading permeates all aspects of school life, with pupils reading widely and often from the well-resourced library.
• Pupils conduct themselves well around the school, demonstrating a positive attitude to learning and achieving their best.

Areas to improve:

• In a small number of subjects, the key knowledge that the school wants pupils to learn is not clearly identified, making it harder for staff to focus their delivery of the curriculum on the knowledge that pupils need to remember.
• Sometimes, pupils struggle to remember essential information due to unclear key knowledge in some subjects.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.