Churchfield CofE Primary Academy

Overview: Churchfield CofE Primary Academy is a safe and happy place for pupils to learn, with staff who care deeply about the pupils and their families. The school wants every pupil to learn to read and receive a broad, ambitious curriculum, and pupils mostly meet these expectations to achieve well.

Strengths:

• The school is a safe and happy place for pupils to learn.
• Staff care deeply about the pupils and know their families well.
• Pupils feel safe in school and know they can talk to staff if they are worried.
• The school has developed a curriculum for teachers to follow, with the most successful subjects being those where the school has implemented its own initiatives.
• The curriculum in the early years is exceptionally well planned and considers the needs of all pupils.
• Pupils achieve well where the use of resources and learning activities by teachers is effective.

Areas to improve:

• The school has not ensured that assessment strategies are used consistently and effectively to check how well all pupils are learning the intended curriculum.
• The needs of a few pupils with SEND are not met well enough, with these pupils not consistently receiving the adaptations they need to achieve well.
• The curriculum for the foundation subjects is in the early stages of implementation and is not yet fully embedded, with pupils not building on their prior learning in a way that helps them to know more and remember more.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.