Porters Grange Primary School and Nursery

Overview: Porters Grange Primary School and Nursery is a good school that provides a happy, calm, and warm ethos where pupils feel safe and supported. Pupils are polite and responsible, and relationships in school are very positive and caring. The school has high expectations of pupils and provides a productive and supportive environment for learning.

Strengths:

• The school promotes reading very well, with pupils reading regularly and enjoying discussing their favourite books and authors.
• Pupils behave very well, with the school having high expectations of pupils' behaviour and consistently applying these expectations.
• The school identifies and supports pupils with SEND well, providing them with a range of expertise and support.
• The programme for pupils' personal development is a strength of the school, with staff ensuring that pupils learn about a range of roles they can undertake when they are older.
• Leaders, including trustees, work together effectively to improve the school, supporting staff with their workload and providing appropriate training.

Areas to improve:

• In some curriculum areas, staff do not check systematically what pupils know and can do, resulting in pupils developing gaps in their learning.
• The school does not check precisely what pupils have learned in some curriculum subjects, leading to pupils developing gaps in their learning and not making the progress they are capable of.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.