Malpas Alport Endowed Primary School

Overview: Malpas Alport Endowed Primary School is a well-led and managed school where pupils are safe and happy. The school has a strong standard in many areas, including early years, personal development and wellbeing, and leadership and governance.

Strengths:

• A well-designed curriculum in early years that starts in the Nursery and supports children to develop skills and knowledge in all areas of learning.
• High-quality interactions between staff and children that support language development and help children develop their communication skills.
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) so they can access the curriculum.
• A well-designed programme to support pupils' personal development, including teaching pupils how to stay safe online and in the community.
• Many opportunities for pupils to contribute to the local community, including intergenerational projects and visits to local care homes.
• A calm and orderly school environment where pupils behave well in lessons and at social times.

Areas to improve:

• Teachers do not consistently adapt the delivery of the curriculum to support pupils to overcome barriers to learning.
• Some learning activities are not well adapted to pupils' individual learning needs, resulting in some pupils not learning as well as they could.
• Teaching does not always ensure that pupils form letters accurately or use correct punctuation, resulting in some pupils' writing not being as accurate as it could be.
• Leaders need to do more to ensure that all teachers deliver the curriculum consistently well.

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.