Church Hill Infant School

Overview: Church Hill Infant School continues to be a good school, providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for its diverse community. Pupils enjoy coming to school and feel safe, with low levels of bullying.

Strengths:

• The school is ambitious for all pupils, including those with SEND, and provides adaptations to ensure they can access the curriculum and achieve well.
• Pupils enjoy a range of activities, including 'Happy Lunchtimes', 'Playground Pals', and trips to museums and the space centre.
• The school has developed a clear strategy and approach to teaching early reading, with well-resourced classrooms and corridors.
• Staff are well-trained and encouraged to use sounds to help pupils read and spell unfamiliar words.
• The board of trustees provides the right balance of support and challenge to leaders, with robust systems in place to gain information from the local advisory board.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders need to ensure that all staff understand how to teach reading effectively and consistently, to raise standards even higher.
• The school needs to continue to ensure that teaching consistently enables pupils to remember important knowledge, with adults in the classroom closely checking that pupils know and understand this knowledge well.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.