King of Kings

Overview: King of Kings is a well-run school that provides a high-quality education to its pupils. The school has a strong focus on safeguarding, and leaders have made significant improvements since the previous inspection. Pupils are known as individuals and thrive in a close, caring community.

Strengths:

• Pupils achieve well because the school builds secure foundations from the earliest stages.
• The school creates a calm, respectful and positive environment, where pupils behave well and feel safe.
• The school provides a well-designed curriculum from the early years through to post-16, and leaders set out the knowledge pupils need to learn over time.
• Staff use a blend of direct teaching and self-study to develop pupils' independence and prepare them well for future study.
• The school places pupils' personal development and wellbeing at the centre of its work, and pupils learn to reflect on their beliefs, understand right and wrong and think about how their actions affect others.

Areas to improve:

• The range of reading books for pupils to choose from in the pre-school and primary phase does not fully reflect the diversity and cultural backgrounds of pupils.
• In the early years, leaders should increase the planned opportunities for children to practise and secure the fundamental physical skills of running, jumping, balancing, agility, throwing and catching.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and establishing an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.