Darvell School

Overview: Darvell School is a good school that provides a warm, nurturing, and disciplined environment for its pupils. Pupils are polite, confident, and industrious, and they make the most of opportunities across the school's offer, achieving well.

Strengths:

• Pupils make good progress through the school's curriculum, and new learning builds securely on their prior knowledge.

• Pupils learn to read fluently and usually with great pleasure, and they develop secure mathematical knowledge, which they apply well to solve problems.

• The school promotes younger children's physical development well, and older pupils participate in physical activity with commitment.

• Teachers are well-trained and supported to implement the curriculum effectively, and they demonstrate and explain important learning points clearly to pupils.

• The school's promotion of pupils' personal development, and the opportunities for pupils to develop their talents and interests, are exceptional.

Areas to improve:

• The school is in the process of strengthening further the curriculum in some areas to ensure that it consistently matches the school's ambitions and high expectations of pupils. Some changes are very recent and have not had time to make a sustained difference to pupils' learning and progress.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.