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Overview: Longton Lane Community Primary School continues to be a good school, providing a vibrant and nurturing environment where pupils enjoy attending and thrive on the school's well-established learning routines.
Strengths:
- Pupils enjoy attending this school and are courteous, caring, and respectful.
- The school has developed an ambitious curriculum that flows logically from Reception to Year 6, with teachers clear about the important subject content that they want pupils to learn and when they need to learn it.
- Teachers have strong subject knowledge, which helps them to explain and model new learning very clearly.
- Reading is a priority in this school, with teachers and teaching assistants undertaking considerable training in teaching reading and teaching the phonics programme very effectively.
- The school ensures that pupils across all year groups enjoy reading a wide range of texts for pleasure.
- Pupils' very positive behaviour in class enhances their learning, and they listen carefully to explanations and improve their understanding by discussing with their classmates.
- The school promotes pupils' personal development, with older pupils taking on responsibilities with pride, including being house captains and playground buddies.
- Governors have very strong professional expertise, which they use well to play a significant role in the school's improvement.
- Staff appreciate that the school is very supportive of them at difficult times in their lives.
Areas to improve:
- In some subjects, pupils struggle to remember past learning, and the school should review its strategies for building long-term memory so that pupils remember more over time.
- A significant number of staff feel that the school does not take enough account of their views when making decisions that affect how they work, and the school should engage meaningfully with staff when making decisions that affect how individuals carry out their responsibilities.
Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.