Happyhansel Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that Happyhansel Primary School and Nursery Class benefits from "positive, nurturing relationships" that support children's health and wellbeing. While evaluations for leadership, learning, and attainment were rated as "satisfactory," the school was judged "good" in ensuring wellbeing, equality, and inclusion. Inspectors expressed confidence that the school has the capacity to continue improving without further visits.

Strengths

• "Positive, nurturing relationships between children and staff" which support the health and wellbeing needs of all children.
• Children are described as "friendly, polite and proud of their school, nursery and community," gaining skills through various activities.
• The headteacher and staff work effectively to build "highly supportive" links with the Parent Council, partners, and the wider parent body.

Areas to improve

• Improve approaches to tracking and measuring children’s attainment and progress by agreeing on "robust assessment evidence."
• Develop a shared understanding of high-quality learning, teaching, and assessment to ensure "progressive learning experiences" are planned consistently.
• Ensure learning targets for children requiring additional support are "more specific and measurable" to identify effective interventions.
• Ensure approaches to quality assurance in the school and nursery are "robust" to better identify strengths and areas for development.

Safeguarding

The report states that positive, nurturing relationships between children and staff "support the health and wellbeing needs of all children."