Evergreen Primary School

Overview

Evergreen Primary School continues to be a good school, where pupils thrive under high expectations and strong, caring relationships with staff. The report highlights that leaders have an extremely detailed knowledge of each pupil, ensuring a highly specialised curriculum that reflects their diverse needs. Parents and carers are overwhelmingly positive about the school, and pupils behave exceptionally well, moving around the site with great respect.

Strengths

• Staff have developed "strong, caring relationships" with pupils and possess "extremely detailed knowledge" of each child’s specific needs.
• The curriculum is carefully planned to help pupils "build up knowledge and skills over time," with skilful adaptations for those with complex needs, such as sensory resources in science and music.
• Leaders ensure advice from therapists and professionals is integrated into the "specialised curriculum offer," supporting all pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Pupils enjoy a wide range of enrichment activities, including visits from veterans, music festivals, and road safety sessions with police officers.
• Staff report being "overwhelmingly positive" about the support they receive for workload and well-being, while governors provide effective challenge to leaders.

Areas to improve

• For a small number of higher attaining pupils, the curriculum is not yet adapted enough, meaning some are not consistently taught at a level that helps them move forward in their learning.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with a "strong culture of safeguarding" across the school, rigorous recruitment checks, and staff who know how to keep pupils safe and engage appropriately with outside agencies.