Castle Hill Primary School

Overview: Pupils at Castle Hill Primary School enjoy coming to school, are enthusiastic about their learning, and benefit from a wide range of opportunities to support their well-being. They achieve well and make positive progress through the curriculum from their individual starting points. The school provides a highly inclusive, caring and nurturing environment where pupils feel safe.

Strengths:

• Pupils behave extremely well in class and around the school, embodying the school values of aspiration and respect.
• The school offers an ambitious curriculum that reflects the breadth and depth of what is expected nationally, with subjects sequenced to enable pupils to embed knowledge over time.
• Support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is a real strength, with staff ensuring that these pupils benefit from familiar routines and adapting learning to meet a range of different needs.
• Pupils are thoroughly prepared for life beyond school, with opportunities to develop their talents and interests through clubs and activities.

Areas to improve:

• Errors and misconceptions in pupils’ writing across the curriculum are not identified and addressed in a timely way, limiting the fluency and quality of work pupils produce.
• The quality of pupils’ writing in subjects other than English is not as strong as it could be, with technical errors not being identified and addressed as swiftly.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.