Pendle View Primary School

Overview

Pendle View Primary School continues to be an outstanding school, providing a highly ambitious curriculum tailored to pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities. The inspection confirms that leaders maintain high expectations and work closely with parents to ensure all pupils achieve or exceed their personal and educational outcomes.

Strengths

• Pupils receive a "warm welcome" and feel "valued, well cared for and ready to learn," creating a happy environment where they "have fun while they learn."
• The curriculum is "highly ambitious" and "knits together seamlessly" with pupils’ education, health and care plans to support individual needs.
• Staff possess a "comprehensive understanding of pupils’ needs," designing engaging activities that reinforce learning across subjects.
• There is an "exciting and well-embedded culture of reading," with staff delivering the phonics programme consistently to help pupils decode unfamiliar words.
• Leaders carefully consider staff well-being, ensuring they have time for their roles and access to "confidential external support."

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.