John Bunyan Primary School and Nursery

Overview: John Bunyan Primary School and Nursery continues to be a good school, providing a positive and engaging learning environment for its pupils. Pupils are happy to attend the school and appreciate the extra activities and trips provided. They praise their teachers for making lessons interesting and expect them to complete work to a high standard.

Strengths:

• The school actively promotes a love of books and reading, with staff regularly reading to pupils and parents invited in to share this experience.
• The new phonics scheme has had a demonstrable and beneficial effect, particularly with early years children in the very first stages of reading.
• The school has made significant reductions in absence, with new strategies including better partnership working with parents and external agencies.
• The leadership team has made the teaching of phonics its number one priority, with staff adopting the new scheme diligently.

Areas to improve:

• The school should continue to accelerate intervention strategies for pupils who are still not reading as fluently as they should, including those with SEND.
• The school should review the wider curriculum programme, focusing on how pupils are expected to build subject-specific skills and knowledge over time, to help pupils develop and remember even deeper subject-specific knowledge and skills.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.