Queen's Park Infant Academy

Overview

Queen’s Park Infant Academy continues to be a good school, providing a happy and safe environment where pupils are proud of their school life. The report highlights a broad, ambitious curriculum that fosters creativity and strong foundational knowledge in reading, writing, and mathematics. While the school is well-led and inclusive, there are specific areas regarding teaching precision and support for pupils speaking English as an additional language that require attention.

Strengths

• Pupils are described as "happy and safe," benefiting from "high-quality pastoral support" and a curriculum that makes learning "fun".
• The school is "highly inclusive" and "well led and managed," with staff effectively using trust expertise to ensure subject curriculums have "maximum impact".
• Teaching ensures pupils gain "essential foundational knowledge" in core subjects, with most leaving able to read fluently and understand what they read.
• The wider curriculum is "exciting," featuring practical resources, museum visits, and projects like the ‘eco’ committee that engage young learners.
• There is a "strong commitment to ensuring pupils’ well-being," with stringent systems supporting good attendance and rare persistent absence.

Areas to improve

• Teaching must better prioritise the needs of pupils who speak English as an additional language, ensuring they learn essential vocabulary and understand context within work sequences.
• Staff need to use checks on pupil knowledge more effectively to address misconceptions swiftly and ensure teaching is built firmly on what pupils need to know next.
• In the early years, some interactions lack precision in modelling and extending children’s language, which requires improvement.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.