Lockerley Church of England Endowed Primary School

Overview:

The Ofsted inspection report for Lockerley Church of England Endowed Primary School highlights the school's strengths in providing a safe and inclusive environment, with a strong focus on attendance and behaviour. The school has made improvements in attendance and reduced persistent absence, with levels above the national average. Pupils behave well, show positive attitudes to learning, and generally work hard in lessons.

Strengths:

• Leaders focus relentlessly on improving pupils' attendance and have brought about improvements effectively through close partnerships and personalised approaches.

• The school has improved punctuality and reduced persistent absence, with attendance levels above the national average.

• Pupils behave well, show positive attitudes to learning, and generally work hard in lessons.

• The school has a well-designed programme to support pupils' personal development and wellbeing, including a range of enrichment opportunities.

• The school's inclusive ethos ensures that everyone feels a strong sense of belonging, and all pupils are welcome, regardless of their background or barriers to success.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should continue their work to improve outcomes in phonics to ensure that more pupils quickly gain the knowledge and skills they need to become successful readers.

• Leaders should ensure that the curriculum for writing, and how it is taught, supports pupils to achieve consistently well in handwriting, spelling and grammar.

• The teaching of handwriting, spelling and grammar is not consistently effective.

Safeguarding:

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.