Dubmire Primary

Overview

Dubmire Primary is described as a school that “sits proudly at the heart of the community” with “the highest of aspirations for all pupils’ achievement.” The report highlights an “ambitious and engaging curriculum” where pupils are “keen to learn” and achieve very well, supported by strong leadership and effective safeguarding arrangements.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate “extremely positive attitudes to learning” and are “exceptionally well behaved,” routinely abiding by the school’s rules to be ‘ready, respectful, safe’.
• The curriculum is “well-designed” and “ambitious,” with teachers helping pupils learn broadly; pupils often “recall prior learning with great detail.”
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are “supported extremely well,” with needs identified “precisely and rapidly” and effective in-class support enabling them to learn alongside peers.
• Reading is prioritised with a “highly consistent approach,” resulting in most pupils developing into “fluent and confident readers” with a “strong love of reading.”
• Leaders provide “highly effective support and challenge,” implementing a “highly effective, well-targeted training programme” that considers staff workload and well-being.

Areas to improve

• In the early years, adult interactions are “not consistently high quality,” with some missed opportunities to use “rich vocabulary during play,” slowing the development of everyday words.
• Some pupils lack a “secure understanding of fundamental British values,” particularly regarding the “tolerance of different faiths and beliefs.”

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”