Leigh Primary School

Overview

Leigh Primary School is described as a “highly inclusive school with ambition for all pupils,” where staff create a “very caring environment” that enables pupils to thrive. The report highlights “strong standard” performance in inclusion, leadership, and personal development, while achievement, attendance, and curriculum delivery meet the “expected standard.”

Strengths

• Inclusion is a “strong standard,” with staff “swiftly and comprehensively identifying pupils who face barriers” and providing effective, personalised support.
• Leadership and governance are rated “strong standard,” featuring a “culture of high ambition” and “purposeful and productive” collaboration.
• Personal development is “strong standard,” with pupils gaining a “secure understanding of important fundamental British values” and benefiting from robust pastoral care.
• Staff wellbeing is supported, with staff holding “very positive views about the management of their workload.”
• The curriculum is “well planned” and “well taught,” ensuring pupils build a “broad and secure body of knowledge.”

Areas to improve

• Leaders should ensure that attendance rates “consistently improve for all groups of pupils.”
• Leaders should ensure the handwriting curriculum is “implemented consistently across the whole school.”
• Leaders should ensure adults “interact consistently well with children in the early years to support their learning.”

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an “open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility” so that “pupils are made safer and feel safe.”