Lancaster Road Primary School

Overview

The report describes a school where pupils feel safe, included, and have positive relationships with staff. While the early years provision meets the expected standard, other areas including achievement, attendance, and teaching quality are rated as needing attention due to inconsistencies and slow improvement rates.

Strengths

• The early years curriculum is clear and progressive, with staff having "highly positive interactions" that entice children into learning.
• Pupils feel safe and included, with staff dealing swiftly with bullying and maintaining a "calm and purposeful" environment.
• Leaders provide a broad curriculum with extensive wider opportunities, including sports and arts, which pupils engage with well.
• There is effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, with leaders taking on board specialist advice to shape provision.
• Staff receive relevant training and support, and leaders consider staff wellbeing when making changes to the school.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must ensure a more consistent approach to correcting basic errors in pupils’ grammar, punctuation, spelling, and handwriting across all subjects.
• Leaders should develop teachers’ expertise in making curriculum adaptations so that learning tasks are more precisely matched to pupils’ needs.
• Leaders need to work closely with parents to improve attendance and check the consistency of curriculum implementation more rigorously.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an open culture where concerns are actively identified and managed, ensuring pupils are made safer and feel safe.