Hassocks Infant School

Overview

Hassocks Infant School is described as a place where pupils “thrive” and develop “confidence, resilience and enthusiasm for learning.” The inspection found that leaders have created a “welcoming and purposeful environment” where staff use “highly effective teaching approaches” to ensure all children, including those with special educational needs, achieve very well.

Strengths

• The curriculum is “logically ordered” and “seamlessly sequenced,” enabling pupils to acquire a “depth of knowledge” in reading, writing, and mathematics.
• Attendance is high, with leaders being “tenacious” in their approaches to securing regular attendance and working effectively with families and external agencies.
• Behaviour is “exemplary,” supported by a “highly positive” approach where pupils actively contribute to class charters and embody school values.
• Inclusion is meticulous, with staff swiftly identifying barriers to learning and adapting provision so that disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs “fully access the same learning as their peers.”
• Staff possess “expert subject knowledge” and use “carefully selected resources” to enhance learning, ensuring pupils are “very well prepared” for the transition to key stage 2.

Areas to improve

• Leaders should “continue to drive the ongoing refinement of the curriculum implementation” to sustain “exceptional standards of teaching” and maintain the “transformational impact” on pupil achievement.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an “open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility” and concerns are “actively identified, acted upon and managed.”