Dedridge Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found a school with a "strong and inclusive ethos" where children feel "safe and well cared for." While leadership, wellbeing, and learning are evaluated as "good," raising attainment is rated "satisfactory," with specific improvements required regarding challenge and curriculum planning.

Strengths

• There is a "strong and inclusive ethos" with "very positive" relationships, ensuring children feel "safe and well cared for."
• The headteacher promotes a "culture of innovation and creativity," supporting staff to lead improvements and deliver "creative approaches in learning."
• In the Enhanced Resource Base, teachers plan learning at the "right level of difficulty" to match support needs, ensuring it is "relevant and meaningful."
• Children are "confident in applying and extending" their skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, relating these to "learning, life and work."

Areas to improve

• All staff should "increase their expectations of what all children can achieve," focusing on the "pace and level of challenge" to raise attainment.
• Senior leaders should "rigorously review the evidence" regarding the success of improvement priorities, particularly for children experiencing "barriers to their learning."
• Senior leaders and staff should "streamline approaches to curriculum planning" across the school and ERB to ensure "breadth, balance and progression."

Safeguarding

The report states that staff have a "strong understanding of the wellbeing needs of children," resulting in children feeling "safe and well cared for."