Poole, BH12 3DT · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · primary school
Generated by AI from the official inspection report — not written by Ofsted or SchoolsGPT staff. Always read the full Ofsted PDF before relying on this summary.
Overview: Livingstone Road Infant School is a highly inclusive school where pupils are safe, happy, and well-supported. The school has a strong focus on phonics, reading, and writing, and leaders have prioritised high-quality teaching and targeted wider support for disadvantaged pupils.
Strengths:
• The school is highly inclusive, welcoming pupils who join at different times of the year and providing them with the support they need to settle in.
• Pupils make effective progress from their individual starting points, and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) also make assured progress.
• Leaders have a relentless focus on ensuring pupils gain the knowledge and skills they need to read with increasing fluency, and phonics screening results are improving each year.
• The school has a well-defined behaviour curriculum, and staff apply the behaviour policy consistently and sensitively, leading to a reduction in suspension and bullying.
• The curriculum is broad, ambitious, and well sequenced, and leaders have identified the important knowledge that pupils need to know and remember.
• The school has a strong focus on reading, and pupils' reading books match the phonics sounds they know, leading to quick gains in knowledge and skills.
• The school has a positive and inclusive culture, and pupils are proud to belong to the welcoming school community.
Areas to improve:
• Leaders should continue working closely with families and external agencies to support pupils to secure consistently high attendance and reduce persistent absence.
• Leaders should ensure that pupils consistently apply early writing skills, including handwriting, punctuation, and spelling, across the broader curriculum with the same precision that is shown in their English work.
Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, and leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight have established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon, and managed.
LA publishes a dedicated 'School catchment areas' page; only 13 of ~104 schools follow the LA default (rest are academies/VA, may differ).
Source: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole admissions policy
Under Ofsted's report-card framework (introduced November 2025), schools no longer receive a single overall grade — each area below is judged separately.
One shared set of selection tests for all four BCP consortium grammar schools (Bournemouth School, Bournemouth School for Girls, Parkstone Grammar School, Poole Grammar School), taken once at the consortium school where you registered: 1. Mathematics (about 50 minutes) — Key Stage 2 curriculum topics. 2. English (about 45 minutes) — comprehension, vocabulary and punctuation. 3. Verbal Reasoning (about 50 minutes). Papers are multiple-choice and age-standardised; the test may only be taken once per admissions round, and the single result is used by every consortium school you apply to. Registration runs later than most areas (historically closing at 12 noon in early September of Year 6, test in late September, results by email in mid-October before the 31 October application deadline).
Same area, prioritising the same phase — useful for shortlisting alternatives.
Data sourced from GIAS, Ofsted and official Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole admissions publications. Figures can change year to year — always confirm with the school before applying.
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