Dilhorne Endowed CofE Primary School

Overview: Dilhorne Endowed CofE Primary School is a small, friendly school where pupils feel valued, cared for, and connected to their community. The school's unique rural environment provides spaces that nurture resilience and wellbeing. Pupils are happy, confident, and well cared for, and enjoy coming to school where everyone is known, loved, and valued.

Strengths:

• The school's welcoming and inclusive culture helps pupils feel a sense of belonging.
• Leaders ensure that pupils have opportunities to reflect on themselves and the world around them through activities such as supporting the local dogs' home and food bank.
• The personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) curriculum teaches pupils how to stay safe, both online and in the local community.
• Pupils understand the difference between healthy and unhealthy friendships and can explain how they manage peer pressure.
• The school's unique rural environment, including the farm, forest school, and the 'mindful meadow', provides spaces that nurture resilience and wellbeing.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should ensure that the most effective teaching practice is shared and applied consistently across the school.
• Leaders should continue their work to raise attendance and reduce persistent absence.
• Leaders should ensure interactions between staff and children consistently help children to develop their speaking skills and vocabulary.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.