Pleasant Street Primary School

Overview

Pupils enjoy attending this “welcoming school” where they feel “safe and happy,” supported by leaders who have built “strong relationships with pupils and their families.” The school delivers an “ambitious” curriculum that embraces local culture, ensuring pupils leave “well prepared for the next stage of their education.” While most pupils behave well, there are inconsistencies in how staff manage low-level disruption.

Strengths

• The curriculum is “ambitious for all pupils,” with teachers using strong subject knowledge to deliver content in a “logical order” that helps pupils build a “rich body of knowledge.”
• Personal development is outstanding, with pupils taking on leadership roles such as “school councillors” and “reading buddies,” and demonstrating values of “resilience, responsibility, resourcefulness, respect and reflection.”
• Teachers effectively adapt their teaching for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those speaking English as an additional language, ensuring they “learn well alongside their peers.”
• Early years provision is strong, with adults maximising opportunities to develop children’s spoken language through stories and rhymes from a “wide range of cultures.”
• Leaders prioritise a “love of reading,” ensuring pupils read books that match their phonics knowledge and encouraging them to choose texts for pleasure.

Areas to improve

• Some teachers do not address “low-level disruption swiftly,” which occasionally disrupts the learning of other pupils. Leaders must ensure the behaviour policy is “understood and applied consistently well by staff.”

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are “effective,” with a “strong culture of safeguarding” where staff are trained to spot signs of abuse and report concerns “diligently.”