Shepton Mallet Community Infants' School & Nursery

Overview

Shepton Mallet Community Infants’ School & Nursery continues to be a good school, offering a "warm and friendly school community" where staff know pupils "exceptionally well." The inspection confirms that leaders are "very well led and managed," ensuring pupils achieve well and are prepared for junior school through an exciting curriculum and strong pastoral support.

Strengths

• Staff provide "precise help and support," ensuring children are "happy, well cared for and settle quickly."
• The curriculum is "well established" and "particularly successful in interesting and engaging young learners."
• Pupils gain a "love of reading" and demonstrate "quick recall of the number facts" in mathematics.
• Leaders have "stringent systems" to support pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and English as an additional language (EAL).
• Persistent absence is "reducing markedly" due to effective attendance systems.

Areas to improve

• Staff must adapt teaching consistently to address "pupils’ misconceptions when they arise within sequences of work or lessons" to prevent slowed learning.
• Leaders must refine specific subject content in some aspects of the wider curriculum so pupils learn the "depth of knowledge they could."

Safeguarding

The report states that "the arrangements for safeguarding are effective."