Cam Woodfield Junior School

Overview: Cam Woodfield Junior School is a good school where leaders and staff are ambitious for all pupils. Pupils enjoy learning, are polite and respectful, and know how to keep themselves safe. The school provides a wide range of enriching opportunities and has a strong focus on pastoral support and personal development.

Strengths:

• Leaders have thought about the key concepts they want pupils to know and remember, helping pupils build secure knowledge over time.
• Teachers use the reading curriculum to plan lessons that concentrate on developing pupils' fluency and comprehension well.
• Leaders are passionate about the provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, with clear and robust processes in place to ensure pupils' additional needs are identified swiftly.
• Staff's support for pupils' personal development is a strength of the school, teaching pupils about the importance of respect and safe relationships.
• The school has a high profile on the well-being of pupils, parents, and staff, with leaders supporting staff to manage their workload and staff appreciating leaders' consideration and care.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders have not identified the essential knowledge they want pupils to know and remember in some foundation subjects, meaning pupils do not learn some of the key concepts.
• When planning pupils' learning from some foundation subject curriculums, teachers do not know what the essential knowledge is that pupils should be taught, resulting in pupils having gaps in their subject knowledge.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders ensuring recruitment checks are completed before staff and volunteers begin working at the school, governors monitoring safeguarding records, and staff attending appropriate safeguarding training.