Fulham Primary School

Overview

The report describes a school where “pupils thrive” under a new leadership team with “consistently high expectations.” It highlights a “broad and ambitious” curriculum that is carefully sequenced to help all pupils, including those with special educational needs, deepen their knowledge. The inspection concludes that the school is “truly inclusive” and provides “exceptional” personal development, preparing pupils well for future life.

Strengths

• A “strong culture of reading” is established through precise phonics delivery and carefully matched books, ensuring pupils read with “increasing accuracy, fluency and confidence.”
• There is a “relentless focus on developing pupils’ oracy,” helping children communicate “confidently and effectively” from the Nursery onwards.
• The curriculum is “well designed” with learning broken into small steps, allowing pupils to “know and remember more over time.”
• Behaviour is described as “exemplary” and “calm and harmonious,” with disruption in lessons being “rare.”
• Staff receive “high-quality training and support,” resulting in “very secure subject knowledge” and effective assessment practices.

Areas to improve

• Leaders are focused on “increasing” attendance further and “reducing rates of persistent absence,” as most pupils attend regularly but not all.
• Recent curriculum changes are “not yet fully reflected in the school’s published outcomes,” though implementation is consistent.

Safeguarding

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