Kettins Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that Kettins Primary School has a "welcoming, caring and inclusive ethos" where children feel "safe, valued and nurtured." Staff work effectively to create positive relationships, resulting in pupils who are "confident and articulate" and make "good progress in their learning." The report evaluates both learning, teaching and assessment, and raising attainment and achievement as "good."

Strengths

• The acting headteacher and staff foster "positive, respectful and trusting relationships" with children, parents, and the community.
• Children are described as "polite, well-mannered and welcoming to visitors," showing pride in their school.
• Staff have developed a "strong understanding of the key features of high-quality learning and teaching" and implement these well.

Areas to improve

• Staff should plan learning and track progress to meet the needs of all children in multi-composite classes and develop opportunities for children to lead their own learning.
• Staff should continue to support children in understanding how their achievements link to "skills for learning, life and work."
• Senior leaders and the local authority should continue to monitor and review the impact of work taken forward regarding safeguarding.

Safeguarding

Senior leaders and the local authority have worked together to take forward areas for improvement in safeguarding which "required urgent action," and they should continue to monitor and review the impact of this work over time.