Manor Park Church of England First School

Overview

Manor Park Church of England First School is described as a "calm and purposeful" community where pupils are "confident and ready to take on the challenges of the next stage of their education." The report highlights a "successful journey of improvement" under current leadership, with strong relationships and a clear focus on early reading and phonics.

Strengths

• Pupils "achieve well in phonics and read well," producing "particularly high-quality work in subjects such as art."
• Staff foster "positive relationships" and maintain high expectations, resulting in typically good behaviour where bullying is "rare."
• Leaders provide "bespoke" support for attendance, helping pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and disadvantaged pupils to "achieve well."
• The early years provision is "calm and purposeful," with staff using "high-quality vocabulary" to build secure foundations for learning.
• Governors and trust leaders "support and challenge the school appropriately," ensuring decisions are made in the "best interests of pupils."

Areas to improve

• Leaders must ensure the "graduated approach to support pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities is applied consistently and its impact evaluated."
• Leaders should address "gaps in foundational knowledge in mathematics, particularly in multiplication tables," before pupils leave.
• Leaders should "continue their work to secure consistently high attendance for pupils, including those who are disadvantaged."

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an "open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility" and concerns are "actively identified, acted upon and managed."