Chaucer Infant School

Overview

Chaucer Infant School is described as a “caring and welcoming school where relationships are positive” and pupils are “happy and safe.” While pupils achieve well in core subjects like reading and mathematics, the report notes that they “often struggle to remember what they have been taught” in other areas and the early years. Consequently, several key judgement areas, including the quality of education and leadership, are rated as requiring improvement.

Strengths

• Pupils are “happy and safe” within a “caring and welcoming” environment with positive relationships.
• The school promotes personal development effectively through its ‘BEAR’ values, helping pupils understand how to “belong, enjoy, aim high and respect.”
• Pupils are “typically successful” in core subjects, particularly reading and mathematics, where staff present information well.
• Staff ensure reading books are “matched accurately to the sounds that pupils are learning,” and additional catch-up time is “usually used well.”
• The school works well with families to improve attendance, and pupils have an “age-appropriate understanding of British values.”

Areas to improve

• Teachers must use assessment strategies better to identify and resolve “gaps in pupils’ knowledge and misconceptions.”
• The curriculum for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) requires greater precision and ambition to ensure they “achieve well.”
• Staff must manage behaviour “consistently” to prevent low-level disruption from interrupting learning.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”