Cullingworth Village Primary School

Overview: Cullingworth Village Primary School continues to be a good school, with pupils living and breathing the academy trust's shared values of inclusion, compassion, aspiration, resilience and excellence. They have a strong sense of pride in being a member of the school community, and adults and pupils are glad to be members of Team Cullingworth. Pupils are cheerful and curious, behave well in lessons and at breaktimes, and are happy and safe at school.

Strengths:

• Pupils live and breathe the academy trust's shared values of inclusion, compassion, aspiration, resilience and excellence.
• Pupils have a strong sense of pride in being a member of the school community.
• Pupils are cheerful and curious, behave well in lessons and at breaktimes, and are happy and safe at school.
• Leaders have developed an ambitious curriculum and identified the important knowledge that they want pupils to learn and remember.
• Teachers have developed effective systems to check on pupils' learning in mathematics and reading, helping them to identify and address any gaps in pupils' understanding quickly.
• Pupils with SEND are well supported in lessons, with teachers making appropriate adaptations to ensure that they continue to access the curriculum.
• Leaders have a strong commitment to pupils' personal development, teaching them about important issues such as equality, tolerance and prejudice.
• Pupils are taught about fundamental British values, and this prepares them well for life in modern Britain.

Areas to improve:

• In some subjects, such as history and science, teachers do not check what pupils are learning well enough, meaning that they do not have a clear picture of pupils' understanding.
• In mathematics, some pupils spend too much time reinforcing basic number work that they already know well, meaning that they are not progressing to more complex areas of the curriculum, such as problem-solving.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with a strong culture of safeguarding in the school, systems in place to identify, report and record any concerns over pupils' welfare, and staff trained to do this.