Lionwood Infant and Nursery School

Overview: Pupils thrive at Lionwood Infant and Nursery School, valued and supported to be successful and happy. They enjoy learning the ambitious curriculum and achieve well across the curriculum. The school environment is calm and respectful, creating a positive environment where learning can flourish.

Strengths:

• Pupils are valued and receive the support they need to be successful and happy.
• Pupils enjoy learning the ambitious curriculum that is designed around their needs and interests.
• Staff are skilled and expertly adapt activities to meet the diverse and changing needs of children in the early years.
• The school has designed an ambitious curriculum that provides the right level of challenge and considers what pupils need to know to build strong foundations for future learning.
• The Specialist Hub of Inclusive Practice (SHIP) has strengthened staff's knowledge and expertise across the school, allowing for quick identification of pupils' needs and careful adjustments to teaching.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects, staff sometimes do not check that pupils have a secure understanding of important curriculum content and knowledge before introducing new learning, resulting in gaps in pupils' knowledge and understanding.
• How staff check to ensure pupils have retained the important knowledge in some subjects is still developing, leading to teachers sometimes moving on to new learning before pupils have a secure understanding of important knowledge.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.