Penwortham Broad Oak Primary School

Overview: Penwortham Broad Oak Primary School continues to be a good school, providing a nurturing environment that helps everyone feel happy and safe. Pupils behave well, are polite, and eager to learn, with leaders determined that all pupils will succeed.

Strengths:

• Pupils enjoy a strong sense of community and feel happy and safe in the school.
• Pupils behave well, are polite, and conduct themselves respectfully around the school.
• Staff are skilled in identifying the needs of pupils with SEND and provide carefully planned support.
• The school has a strong culture of safeguarding, with effective systems in place to keep pupils safe.
• Pupils appreciate taking on roles of responsibility, such as being a school councillor or sports leader.

Areas to improve:

• In some subjects, teachers do not check regularly how well pupils understand and remember what they have been taught, preventing pupils from building their knowledge securely.
• In subjects other than mathematics and reading, some pupils struggle to recall some of the knowledge that they have been taught previously, due to a lack of opportunities for pupils to revisit their prior learning.
• In a small number of subjects where leaders have made changes to the curriculum, they have not checked on how well these changes are being implemented by all teachers, meaning that leaders are not clear as to how well pupils are achieving.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders taking their safeguarding responsibilities very seriously and ensuring that staff are trained well to keep pupils and children safe.