Newton Burgoland Primary School

Overview: Newton Burgoland Primary School is a welcoming and inclusive school where pupils are proud to attend. Relationships between pupils and staff are exceptionally positive, and pupils feel safe. The school promotes pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development exceptionally well.

Strengths:

• Pupils are very proud of their school and strive to uphold its high expectations and motto.
• Relationships between pupils and staff are exceptionally positive.
• Pupils feel safe and are well cared for.
• The school promotes pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development exceptionally well.
• Pupils have ample opportunity to explore different cultures and faiths.
• The school has an exceptionally strong curriculum for pupils' personal, social, economic and health (PSHE) education.

Areas to improve:

• Sometimes teachers' expectations of what some pupils can achieve are not as high as they could be, including for some pupils with SEND.
• Teachers do not always use the information they have about pupils to help all pupils to achieve as well as they might, particularly in writing.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.