North Walls Community School

Overview

The inspection found a school where children are "confident," "safe, included and happy," and "proud of their school and nursery." Staff work effectively as a team under strong leadership, delivering "consistent and well-considered learning and teaching approaches" in "stimulating and engaging environments."

Strengths

• Children are described as "supportive of each other" and motivated by "relevant and meaningful learning experiences."
• The headteacher leads staff effectively, ensuring consistent approaches to learning and teaching.
• Nursery practitioners use "skilled questioning and high-quality interactions" to support children in making "very good progress."
• The primary school’s learning, teaching, and assessment, along with raising attainment and achievement, are evaluated as "good."
• The nursery class’s learning, teaching, and assessment, and securing children’s progress, are evaluated as "very good."

Areas to improve

• Staff should develop opportunities for children to "take responsibility for their own learning" to help them understand their progress and have a "meaningful voice in choices."
• Staff should build on approaches to assessing progress, including developing a "shared understanding of standards about children’s attainment across the curriculum."

Safeguarding

The report states that children are "safe, included and happy," indicating that safeguarding arrangements are effective in keeping pupils secure.