Byley Primary School and Nursery

Overview: Byley Primary School and Nursery is a good school where pupils thrive in a calm and nurturing atmosphere. They feel safe and appreciate that staff care deeply about their well-being. Pupils enjoy their lessons, behave well and work hard, and achieve well, with leaders ambitious for their progress.

Strengths:

• Pupils are proud of their friendly school and feel safe.
• Leaders have created a curriculum that interests and engages all pupils.
• Staff have secure subject knowledge and have accessed a wide range of subject-specific training.
• Pupils enjoy listening to stories and reading on their own for pleasure.
• Children learn phonics well from the moment they start at the school.
• Leaders have made sure that pupils have many opportunities to further enhance their wider development across the curriculum.
• Governors are well informed about improvements in the school and challenge leaders appropriately.
• Staff enjoy working at the school and with each other, and are highly positive about the support they receive from leaders.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects, leaders’ strategies in place to check on pupils’ learning are at an earlier stage of development, meaning that on occasion, teachers are not able to ensure that pupils are acquiring a secure knowledge of some aspects of the curriculum.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with a strong culture around keeping children safe throughout the school and in the wider community. Leaders know families well and have established strong and supportive relationships with parents.