Burnley Brunshaw Primary School

Overview: Burnley Brunshaw Primary School is a caring and welcoming place to learn, with warm relationships at its heart. Pupils are happy in lessons and when playing with friends, and feel safe with staff who care about them.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy and feel safe in lessons and when playing with friends.
• Staff have high expectations of pupils' behaviour, and pupils behave well in lessons and around the school.
• The curriculum in the early years is suitably designed and delivered, and children in the early years learn and develop well.
• Teachers use a range of strategies to ensure that most pupils make secure connections between new and previously learned concepts and ideas.
• Pupils, and children in the early years, engage fully in the activities that teachers prepare.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects in key stages 1 and 2, leaders have not given sufficient thought to the essential knowledge that pupils must learn and in what order.
• Occasionally, teachers do not use the assessment information that they gather as effectively as they could to address gaps in pupils' knowledge.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Leaders, staff and governors are well trained and knowledgeable about keeping pupils safe, and the procedures in place to identify and report concerns are well understood by all staff.