Oak Grange Primary School

Overview

Oak Grange Primary School is a new, rapidly expanding institution that has established a "strong standard" in early years, inclusion, leadership, and personal development. While safeguarding standards are met and pupils are described as happy and safe, achievement, attendance, and curriculum delivery currently meet only the "expected standard." The report highlights a clear vision and positive ethos, though some areas require further development to sustain quality as the school grows.

Strengths

• Early years provision is "skilfully designed," with children achieving well and thriving in "caring relationships."
• The school is "highly inclusive," with "well-considered support" enabling pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities to "achieve very well."
• Leaders demonstrate "impressive clarity of vision," fostering a "strong sense of belonging" and a positive culture.
• Personal development is "rich" and "well-designed," promoting resilience, kindness, and cultural awareness through activities like "MADD weeks."
• Staff are "overwhelmingly positive" about training, workload support, and the school’s direction.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must ensure work to improve pupils’ writing is "consistently applied by all staff" to impact written work across the curriculum.
• Leaders should build on efforts to ensure all pupils attend "as often as possible," addressing persistent absence.
• Leaders must continue to respond to the "evolving context" as the school increases in size to sustain exceptional quality.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an "open culture" where concerns are "actively identified, acted upon and managed," ensuring pupils "feel safe."