Lytham St Annes Mayfield Primary School

Overview: Lytham St Annes Mayfield Primary School is a highly effective school where pupils thrive in a safe and inclusive environment. Leaders have developed a strong culture of safeguarding, attendance and behaviour, and inclusion. Pupils are proud to be members of this vibrant school community, eager to learn and achieve well.

Strengths:

• Strong standard in attendance and behaviour, with pupils keen to attend school regularly and behave well.
• Excellent behaviour around the school, with pupils demonstrating the characteristics of the 'Mayfield Charter' and showing mature approaches to resolving conflict.
• Inclusive culture, with leaders acutely aware of barriers that some pupils experience and providing bespoke pathways for individual pupils.
• Strong leadership and governance, with leaders' astute understanding of the school's work and strategic improvement work.
• Personal development and wellbeing, with leaders carefully crafting the personal development programme to support pupils' aspirations and needs.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should continue to refine their work to ensure that teaching supports pupils to apply and connect their learning to the same high standard in all subjects.
• Leaders should ensure that the systems, routines and strategies in place to develop pupils' phonics and multiplication knowledge and skills secure sustained improvements in pupils' achievement.

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