Merrylee Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that Merrylee Primary School promotes a strong rights-based ethos, resulting in polite, well-mannered children with positive relationships. Evaluations for learning, teaching and assessment, and raising attainment and achievement were both judged as “good”. The inspectors are confident the school has the capacity to continue improving and will make no further visits.

Strengths

• Children and staff promote a “strong rights-based ethos”, helping children understand their rights and fostering “positive relationships across the school”.
• Younger children benefit from a “well-planned and play-rich environment” that supports learning through exploration and has a “positive impact on children’s attainment at early level”.
• Staff have created a “strong digital culture”, enabling children to use technology to “enhance their learning and build skills for their future”.

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders and staff should develop high-quality approaches to learning, teaching, and assessment, ensuring lessons are set at the right level to “challenge and support all children”.
• Staff should raise attainment in literacy and numeracy and “raise expectations across the school of what children are able to achieve”.
• Senior leaders should improve approaches to ensure staff can make “more robust judgements about children’s achievement of a level”.

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific commentary on safeguarding arrangements.