Otley All Saints CofE Primary School

Overview: Otley All Saints CofE Primary School continues to be a good school, with leaders' vision to provide 'Learning, love and laughter every day' put into practice, creating a caring environment where everyone feels happy and safe.

Strengths:

• Children in the early years get off to a strong start, including in early reading and mathematics.
• Teachers fully understand how the youngest children learn and adapt the curriculum well for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• The curriculum for pupils' broader development is a strength of the school's work, with an extensive list of clubs and educational visits that enrich pupils' learning.
• Reading and mathematics are strengths of this school, with pupils quickly learning to read with fluency and confidence.
• Teachers use assessment precisely to check pupils' learning in reading and mathematics, helping to identify learning gaps and address them quickly.

Areas to improve:

• Teachers do not use assessment well enough to check pupils' understanding and inform teaching in foundation curriculum subjects, leading to pupils not developing detailed knowledge across the curriculum and achieving well in all subjects.
• Assessment arrangements are less effective in some wider curriculum subjects, meaning that teachers are not aware of gaps in pupils' prior learning in these subjects.
• Leaders have not finalised assessment arrangements in these curriculum subjects to identify what pupils know and what they can do.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders making all necessary safeguarding checks when recruiting staff, increasing vigilance when signs indicate that pupils may be at risk of harm, and adapting the curriculum to take account of the school's particular context.