South Green Infant School

Overview

South Green Infant School continues to be a good school, where pupils are happy, feel safe, and enjoy warm relationships with staff. The school maintains high expectations, ensuring all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, achieve well within an inspiring curriculum.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate high levels of enthusiasm in lessons and make effective links between current and past learning.
• Reading provision is strong, with staff using consistent phonics training and targeted support to ensure pupils who fall behind catch up quickly.
• The early years environment is carefully planned and well-resourced, skilfully weaving children’s interests into the curriculum to enhance engagement.
• A well-established behaviour system creates a calm, purposeful atmosphere where bullying is extremely rare and pupils treat each other with kindness.
• Governors and staff work closely together, with staff feeling their well-being and workload are prioritised.

Areas to improve

• In a few subjects other than English and mathematics, the school must refine curriculum documentation to clearly identify key knowledge and skills, ensuring teaching is sequential and pupils acquire the necessary depth of understanding.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.