Landewednack Community Primary School

Overview

Landewednack Community Primary School is described as ‘small yet mighty’, with leaders maintaining a shared vision for pupils to become ‘aspirational, knowledgeable, independent young people’. The report highlights a ‘highly inclusive culture’ where pupils, including those with special educational needs, ‘achieve highly’ and feel safe within a nurturing community.

Strengths

• Pupils ‘secure increasingly detailed knowledge’ across the curriculum, demonstrating ‘impressive depth’ in subjects such as history and art.
• The early years provision is ‘highly effective’, with children ‘flourishing in the highly engaging and thoughtfully designed learning environment’.
• Leaders have established a ‘highly inclusive culture’ where barriers to learning are ‘assessed precisely’ and support is ‘individualised’.
• Personal development is ‘impactful on all pupils’, ensuring they are ‘extremely well prepared for life in modern Britain’ and understand fundamental British values.
• Staff relationships are ‘highly positive’ and ‘nurturing’, with bullying being ‘rare’ and pupils showing ‘care, encouragement, respect and awareness of difference’.

Areas to improve

• Leaders should increase the precision with which skills supporting writing are developed so pupils write with ‘increasing accuracy and fluency’, particularly addressing errors in spelling and grammar.
• Teachers should build on pupils’ starting points more closely to ensure activities are appropriately demanding, as occasionally teaching ‘does not start at the point where pupils are in their learning’.
• Leaders should embed high expectations of behaviour with ‘increased consistency’ to secure high levels of self-discipline throughout the school.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with an ‘open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility’ ensuring pupils are ‘made safer and feel safe’.