Lowton Junior and Infant School

Overview: Lowton Junior and Infant School provides a nurturing environment where pupils feel valued and supported. Pupils are kind, considerate, and supportive of one another, and staff actively encourage them to enact the school's core values of respect, curiosity, and aspiration. The school has an ambitious curriculum and well-trained staff who have the subject knowledge needed to teach with confidence.

Strengths:

• The school fosters an inclusive and nurturing environment where strong, trusting relationships between staff and pupils are evident.
• Pupils are kind, considerate, and supportive of one another.
• The school has an ambitious curriculum that clearly sets out what should be taught and when.
• Well-trained staff have the subject knowledge needed to teach with confidence.
• Pupils enjoy lessons and are proud to share their work and talk about the topics that interest them.

Areas to improve:

• The school should ensure that it strengthens its work to improve pupils' attendance so pupils can learn and achieve even more consistently.
• In some subjects, staff do not check consistently well what pupils have learned and remembered, which means that, on occasion, staff do not identify and address gaps in pupils' knowledge.
• There are some gaps in the knowledge and skills of the governing body, which prevents it from holding the school to account for quality of education as well as it could.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.