Rendlesham Primary School

Overview

Rendlesham Primary School continues to be a good school, providing a “calm and purposeful learning environment” where pupils enjoy attending and achieve well across the curriculum. Leaders have successfully maintained high standards during the pandemic, with gaps in learning “rapidly closing” due to effective assessment and support. The school fosters a strong sense of community, with pupils reporting they feel safe and that bullying is effectively managed.

Strengths

• Pupils “enjoy coming to school every day,” displaying good behaviour and a keenness to learn, with one pupil describing it as a “brilliant place.”
• The ambitious curriculum is taught in a “logical order,” ensuring pupils “know more and remember more” as they progress through the school.
• Reading is a high priority, with well-trained staff ensuring children learn sounds rapidly and read with “increasingly fluency and good understanding.”
• There is “effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities,” with the SENCo being “tenacious in securing expert help.”
• Staff workload is manageable, and they “greatly value the support they receive from school and trust leaders for their well-being.”

Areas to improve

• Leaders should continue to implement and evaluate the delivery of the new curriculum, as monitoring of some aspects is “less well developed.”
• School leaders should identify ways to improve communication with parents so they better understand what and how their children learn.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with a “strong culture of safety” and robust systems ensuring pupils are protected and receive necessary help.