Lilliesleaf Primary School

Overview

Inspectors visited Lilliesleaf Primary School and Nursery Class in January 2024, finding a "calm and nurturing environment" that supports happy learners. The report highlights strong progress in the nursery class, while noting that the primary school requires continued development in teaching approaches and attainment.

Strengths

• Staff have created a "calm and nurturing environment across the school and nursery which is supporting children to be happy and enthusiastic learners."
• Children participate in "regular outdoor learning which helps them to explore, investigate and learn an important range of life skills."
• The nursery offers a "wide range of learning experiences" helping children to "make very good progress in their learning."
• Evaluations for the nursery class rated "Learning, teaching and assessment" and "Securing children’s progress" as "very good."
• Primary school evaluations for "Learning, teaching and assessment" and "Raising attainment and achievement" were rated as "good."

Areas to improve

• Continue to "develop approaches to learning, teaching and assessment to ensure all children are challenged in their learning and make the best possible progress."
• "Continue to raise attainment in literacy and English and numeracy and mathematics for all children in the school."
• Maintain a "strong focus on increasing all children’s progress in writing."

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific statements regarding safeguarding arrangements or outcomes.