Newlands Primary School

Overview: Newlands Primary School continues to be a good school, with pupils feeling proud to belong and staff providing a kind, caring environment. The school has high expectations for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), and has a highly inclusive work ethos.

Strengths:

• Pupils feel proud to belong to the school and appreciate the kind, caring nature of staff and their peers.
• The school has high expectations for all pupils to achieve well, including those with SEND.
• Pupils behave well, are responsible and considerate of each other, and feel safe and happy.
• The school supports pupils' wider development and well-being effectively, with pupils flourishing in their various roles and responsibilities.
• The school's understanding of the community helps pupils be ready for their next stages in development.

Areas to improve:

• The school has focused too much on covering a wide breadth of content at the expense of pupils' depth of knowledge, meaning that pupils do not develop a greater depth of understanding over time.
• A few pupils who need extra support in early reading are not always given the additional help that they require, meaning some pupils do not catch up as swiftly as they could.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.