Littleton Green Community School

Overview

Littleton Green Community Primary School has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at its previous inspection. The school provides a happy and supportive environment where pupils feel valued, achieve well, and have a strong sense of belonging. Leaders and staff strive constantly to improve the quality of education, with a well-thought-out curriculum that ensures pupils’ knowledge builds successfully over time.

Strengths

• Pupils are eager to learn, behave well, and enjoy a wide range of clubs and educational visits that enrich their learning.
• The revised curriculum is ambitious, with clear learning steps that help pupils remember much of what they are taught, particularly in reading and mathematics.
• Staff use strong subject knowledge to implement the curriculum effectively, laying secure foundations for learning in the pre-school.
• There is a sharp focus on reading, with a revised phonics programme ensuring very few pupils fall behind and a positive culture of reading supported by an exceptional library.
• Staff are well trained to support pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), adapting tasks effectively so they access the same work as their peers.

Areas to improve

• Teachers must ensure pupils secure basic punctuation, grammar, and spelling skills before moving on to more challenging writing concepts, and provide sufficient opportunities to practise neat, cursive handwriting.
• The school must ensure consistent implementation of its revised behaviour strategy to address low-level disruption swiftly, reduce the risk of escalation, and lower the number of suspensions.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.