Mrs Bland's Infant School

Overview

Mrs Bland’s Infant School is described as an “exceptionally nurturing, happy and harmonious” environment where staff “care greatly for every child.” The report highlights that pupils are “confident and highly positive learners” who demonstrate “remarkably courteous” behaviour and achieve well across the curriculum.

Strengths

• The school provides an “extremely warm welcome” and fosters a culture where “everyone is accepted and celebrated.”
• Pupils exhibit “highly positive attitudes to school and their learning,” with lessons being “calm and focused.”
• The curriculum is “ambitious and engaging,” designed to be “equally accessible to all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).”
• Staff promote a strong “love of reading,” ensuring pupils become “fluent and enthusiastic readers.”
• Governors provide “effective challenge, as well as guidance and support,” while leaders are “ambitious for staff and pupils.”

Areas to improve

• In some subjects and early years, teachers “do not check well enough what pupils know and understand” and fail to address “key gaps and misconceptions” before moving on.
• The school should ensure staff use assessment efficiently to adapt teaching so that “all pupils progress effectively through the curriculum.”

Safeguarding

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