Edenbrooke Primary School

Overview

Edenbrooke Primary School is described as a “beacon of light” for its community, with a vision of “Achieving, Believing, Succeeding Together” that is fully embraced by staff and parents. The inspection highlights a “safe nurturing environment” where children are “well-motivated, polite and ready to learn,” though the report notes that standards in oracy and consistency in teaching require further development.

Strengths

• Positive relationships for learning, with children reporting that adults treat them with “care and respect.”
• Effective support for children with additional needs, including a “safe, stable and emotionally secure” nurture provision.
• Strong community links, including a “well-established Shared Education partnership” and active parental engagement.
• High levels of pupil happiness, with 94.1% of parents reporting their child is happy at school.
• Successful integration of digital learning and contextualised curriculum activities, such as historical research.

Areas to improve

• Achieve “greater consistency in the planning, teaching and assessment” to ensure all children benefit from high-quality provision.
• Raise standards in children’s oracy to help them communicate ideas more clearly and extend responses.
• Strengthen parental engagement and strategies to improve attendance for children whose progress is impacted by irregular attendance.

Safeguarding

The report states that child protection arrangements “align to the current statutory guidance,” but the school must revise and update policies on bullying and online safety and make them available to the community.