Marlborough Primary

Overview

The inspection found that nearly all pupils feel safe and valued, displaying positive attitudes to learning and high standards of behaviour. The headteacher and senior leadership team provide strong leadership, promoting a clear vision that has resulted in good outcomes across all inspection areas. Most pupils make good progress in literacy and numeracy, with particularly strong oracy skills.

Strengths

• Pupils are "polite, caring and respectful" and demonstrate "positive attitudes to learning."
• Most pupils make "good progress in developing their numeracy and literacy skills," with "levels of oracy skills" being "particularly good."
• Teaching is generally good, with lessons described as "stimulating" where pupils "apply themselves well to tasks."
• The school is a "caring and inclusive community" where most pupils with additional needs in mainstream classes achieve well.
• Governors "understand their role and support the school effectively," contributing to robust self-evaluation.

Areas to improve

• Sharpen monitoring and school improvement planning to "identify precisely the specific aspects that require improvement."
• Share best practice in teaching to improve "pace and pupil engagement in all classes."
• Implement planning for developing pupils’ information and communication technology (ICT) skills "fully across the school."

Safeguarding

The report states that safeguarding "meets requirements and gives no cause for concern."