Parkside Community Primary School

Overview: Parkside Community Primary School is an exceptional school that provides a highly positive learning environment for its pupils. The school has a strong standard in attendance and behaviour, with leaders' work to improve attendance having a highly positive impact. Pupils' behaviour and attitudes to learning are exemplary, and they demonstrate self-discipline and integrity.

Strengths:

• Leaders' work to improve attendance has a highly positive impact.
• Pupils' behaviour and attitudes to learning are exemplary.
• Pupils model self-discipline and integrity.
• Pupils understand what staff ask of them and rise to meet staff's high expectations.
• Staff and pupils have very positive relationships.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should ensure that staff further develop practice to check pupils' understanding so that they can consistently identify and correct pupils' errors and misconceptions.
• Leaders should ensure that pupils strengthen their foundational knowledge and skills in handwriting, ensuring that any gaps are addressed and closed quickly.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, and leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight have established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon, and managed.