Coopersale and Theydon Garnon Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School

Overview: Coopersale and Theydon Garnon Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is a good school where pupils are happy and enjoy their learning. They develop mature, positive attitudes to learning and are confident in their abilities.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy and enjoy their learning, developing in confidence to ask questions and 'have a go'.
• Pupils behave sensibly in lessons from the early years, and teachers are quick to help pupils who need to refocus on their learning.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) engage fully in the school community, and teachers adjust tasks and provide extra equipment in lessons so that pupils with SEND get the help they need to access the same curriculum as their classmates.
• The reading curriculum sets out what children need to know from the early years through to Year 6, and pupils in Years 1 and 2 receive books to read that are closely matched to the sounds they are learning.
• Pupils are confident that teachers will listen to them if they have a concern and help to resolve it.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects, leaders have not identified precisely enough the most important learning and how this develops across the school. In these subjects, pupils are not consistently able to make links within and across their learning. Leaders should ensure that they clearly identify and set out the knowledge to be learned and that staff have the expertise to develop this across the school.
• Leaders are developing systems to monitor the quality of additional support and intervention. While these systems are developing, leaders are not always aware promptly enough how well provision is meeting the needs of pupils. Leaders should ensure that systems are consistently in place to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of support and to adjust this rapidly when necessary.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Pupils learn to stay safe, including online, and to be vigilant with road safety. Systems are in place across the school to enable pupils to share any concerns with their teachers. Pupils are confident in these systems.