Kells Infant School

Overview

Kells Infant School is described as a "friendly school" where pupils are happy and thrive due to the high level of care provided by staff. The report highlights a "broad and ambitious curriculum" that effectively prepares children for junior school, with particular praise for the "very high standard of care" in the nursery and the strong focus on reading.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate "enthusiastic attitudes towards learning" and behave "sensibly and appropriately," creating a positive environment with little disruption.
• Staff make "effective adaptations" to ensure pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) can fully access learning alongside their peers.
• Reading is "at the heart of the curriculum," with pupils gaining the phonics knowledge needed to become "confident and fluent readers."
• Nursery children develop "confidence and curiosity for learning" through sensitive support that helps them share and play happily.
• The school provides a "varied programme of activities" beyond academics, such as after-school clubs and museum visits, which help prepare pupils "extremely well for future life."

Areas to improve

• In a "very small number of subjects," the school has not checked the impact of the curriculum on pupils’ learning, limiting its ability to identify necessary improvements.
• Governors do not "systematically review the impact of the school’s actions" to improve pupils’ learning and are not sufficiently clear about areas needing improvement.

Safeguarding

The report states that "the arrangements for safeguarding are effective."