Claypotts Castle Primary School

Overview

Inspectors found a school with a "strong sense of community" that fosters a "calm, safe and nurturing learning environment." Leadership is described as "highly effective" and "caring," driven by "high aspirations for all children to succeed."

Strengths

• Children are "enthusiastic, motivated and engage well in all activities" and "identify strongly with their school."
• The headteacher and depute headteacher provide "highly effective, caring leadership."
• Staff ensure all children have "many opportunities to achieve" through "very effective partnership working."
• Parents are "very positive about the difference the school is making to their children’s lives."

Areas to improve

• Develop "consistently high-quality approaches to learning and teaching" to ensure all children are challenged.
• Develop approaches to "check children’s progress in all areas of their learning."
• Increase focus on "measuring children’s progress over the longer term" using a range of information.

Safeguarding

The report states that the school contributes to a "calm, safe and nurturing learning environment" and notes that the nursery class was separately inspected by the Care Inspectorate.