Farnley Tyas Church of England Voluntary Controlled First School

Overview

Farnley Tyas First School is described as a “small, friendly school” where pupils “love attending” and feel safe. The inspection highlights “warm and respectful relationships” between staff and pupils, with leaders successfully creating a culture where “equality is championed and diversity celebrated.” Overall, the school provides a high-quality education with “first rate” behaviour and effective safeguarding arrangements.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate “impressive” behaviour, with bullying reported as “simply not a problem.”
• The curriculum is “broad and ambitious,” with subject-specific content that is “clear and well structured.”
• There is a “sharp focus on reading,” ensuring most pupils leave as “keen and confident readers.”
• The school is highly inclusive, with pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) taking part in “every aspect of school life” and achieving well.
• Staff workload and well-being are prioritised, with staff being “highly positive about working in the school.”

Areas to improve

• In a “small number of subjects and lessons,” teachers are not delivering the curriculum consistently with leaders’ intentions, meaning some pupils do not learn all intended content.
• Pupils needing additional reading support are not always given books “matched well to the sounds that they know,” hindering their progress.

Safeguarding

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