Eastrop Infant School

Overview

Eastrop Infant School continues to be a good school, where pupils are happy, feel safe, and enjoy a wide range of opportunities. Leaders and staff maintain high expectations, fostering an ethos of teamwork and strong relationships that support every child’s development.

Strengths

• Pupils are polite, behave well, and have a good understanding of respect, with bullying being rare.
• Leaders prioritise reading, ensuring early language development and phonics teaching are effective, inspiring pupils to enjoy books.
• The mathematics curriculum is well-designed and sequenced, helping all pupils, including those with special educational needs, build on previous knowledge.
• Staff provide effective pastoral support, enabling pupils with special educational needs to succeed and learn the same curriculum as their peers.
• Pupils enjoy personal development opportunities, such as representing others on the school council and engaging in themed weeks.

Areas to improve

• In some subjects across the wider curriculum, key knowledge is not clearly identified or sequenced, leaving pupils unable to articulate their learning well.
• Assessment is not used sufficiently in some subjects to check understanding, resulting in gaps in pupils’ subject-specific knowledge.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with a strong culture of keeping children safe, rigorous recruitment checks, and staff who receive regular training and understand reporting procedures.