Sandon Junior Mixed and Infant School

Overview: Sandon Junior Mixed and Infant School is a small village school with a close-knit community, where pupils feel safe and supported. The school has made improvements in attendance and behaviour, but faces challenges in achieving expected standards in some areas.

Strengths:

• Attendance has improved and now sits above the national average.
• Pupils are friendly, respectful, and positive towards each other, forming effective relationships with staff and showing high levels of mutual respect.
• The school has introduced a new behaviour approach and trained staff well, resulting in pupils staying focused in lessons and listening carefully to each other's ideas.
• Pupils benefit from a wide personal development programme that includes relationships, health, and sex education, and have opportunities to learn about community life and fundamental British values.
• Parents and carers speak positively about the school and confidently support its work.

Areas to improve:

• Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities or who are disadvantaged, are not securing the knowledge and skills that they need to learn more complex ideas and concepts.
• The curriculum is not delivered as leaders intend and it does not meet the needs of all pupils consistently well.
• Pupils' experiences of being supported to overcome their barriers to learning are variable.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and establishing an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.