Ludworth Primary School

Overview

Ludworth Primary School continues to be a good school that “serves its community well.” Leaders provide a “broad and ambitious” curriculum with “rich experiences,” ensuring pupils achieve well and hold “high aspirations for the future.” The school fosters a positive environment where pupils treat everyone with respect and demonstrate independence through initiatives like ‘gem powers’.

Strengths

• The curriculum is “coherently planned and sequenced,” with teachers showing “secure subject knowledge” and using resources that support all pupils, including those with special educational needs.
• Reading is a clear priority; most pupils “quickly become competent readers,” and those finding it difficult are “effectively supported to catch up.”
• Behaviour is “very positive,” with classrooms “free from low-level disruption” and pupils frequently offering “support and encouragement to their peers.”
• In the early years, children enjoy “strong relationships with adults” in a “calm, well planned and organised” environment.
• Leaders have taken action to reduce staff workload, resulting in a marking policy that has a “more positive impact on pupils.”

Areas to improve

• In some lessons, adults spend “too long recapping prior knowledge,” which impedes the introduction of new content and prevents pupils from learning key curriculum knowledge.
• Persistent absence is high, and while the school takes action, concerns are “not escalated quickly enough”; systems for monitoring attendance need to be more robust.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”