Hawthorn Primary School

Overview: Hawthorn Primary School is a good school where pupils are very happy and well-supported to achieve. The school lives out its values of "individually we matter, together we shine" and provides a supportive learning environment.

Strengths:

• Pupils are very happy at the school because they are well-supported to achieve and know their voices are heard.
• Pupils behave with considerable care towards each other and understand the school's expectations.
• The school has a strong provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), with leaders having a secure grasp of pupils' needs and staff accurately identifying them.
• The school has a very strong provision for children in the Early Years setting, led with energy and vision, and children achieve well and make a strong start to key stage 1.
• Pupils' personal development is a significant strength of the provision, with the school being deeply committed to it and incorporating significant work for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural education.

Areas to improve:

• On occasions, assessment is not used precisely enough to check pupils have understood key learning, which can lead to misconceptions and missed opportunities to move pupils on to more complex work.
• Sometimes, the school's evaluation of the impact of its work, including around key groups, can lack precision, which can make next steps following evaluation less clear.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.