Martley CofE Primary School

Overview

Martley C of E Primary School continues to be a good school, where pupils are described as “thoughtful, engaged learners” with a “thirst for learning.” The inspection confirms that the school provides a stable and supportive environment, with effective safeguarding arrangements and a curriculum that is “carefully considered and organised.”

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate maturity and care for one another, readily showing the trust’s values “to love, to learn and to serve.”
• The curriculum is well-sequenced, with key content that “spirals around in an upwards and deepening manner,” particularly benefiting mixed-age classes.
• Reading is central to the curriculum; staff deliver phonics effectively, and pupils “learn to read well,” achieving strong outcomes by Year 6.
• Provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is effective, with staff quickly identifying needs and ensuring these pupils “access the full curriculum and achieve well.”
• Staff benefit from targeted support from the academy trust, which has helped manage staffing changes and maintain stability.

Areas to improve

• The school must complete the rollout of its monitoring plan to ensure leaders are fully aware of what needs improvement across the curriculum, including in the early years.
• Middle leaders need a deeper understanding of how early years learning underpins later stages, ensuring interactions and vocabulary used are “precise or effective.”

Safeguarding

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