Newlands Spring Primary and Nursery School

Overview: Newlands Spring Primary and Nursery School is a warm and welcoming environment where pupils are happy and safe. They are confident and kind to one another, and the school provides a wide range of opportunities and experiences to broaden their development.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy and safe, and are particularly well cared for.
• Pupils behave well and work hard, and are confident and kind to one another.
• The school provides a wide range of opportunities and experiences to broaden pupils' development, including visits to the local library and participation in sporting opportunities.
• Pupils can participate in leadership roles from Year 1 onwards, and the school council shares pupils' ideas with staff.

Areas to improve:

• The school's safeguarding records are not always as precise as they should be, making it unclear as to what actions leaders have taken and the impact of these actions.
• In a few subjects, the knowledge that pupils need to learn has not been precisely identified, and some teachers do not have the knowledge and expertise to teach this knowledge as effectively as they do in other subjects.
• There is not a consistency of high-quality practice between the early years classes, which means that children do not progress with their learning as well as they should.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, but there are instances when safeguarding records lack the detail they should have, including adding actions taken for the events that have been recorded and labelling records appropriately.