Stanborough Primary School

Overview: Stanborough Primary School is a smaller-than-average primary school with a religious ethos, providing care through clubs and a focus on pupils' well-being. The school has made significant improvements since the previous inspection, with a strong emphasis on behaviour, personal development, and safeguarding. The quality of education is good, with behaviour and attitudes outstanding.

Strengths:

• Pupils develop tolerance and respect for others, feeling happy and safe together.
• Staff set high expectations for behaviour, and pupils show pride in themselves and their school.
• Pupils are enthusiastic readers and mathematicians, achieving very well in many subjects.
• The school provides deliberate, carefully considered opportunities for pupils to learn about and develop compassion and tolerance.
• Pupils' behaviour around the school is exceptional, with pupils settling swiftly to lessons and concentrating well.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects, recent changes to the curriculum have not yet fully established, and pupils have not yet accumulated all the knowledge as leaders intend.
• The curriculum does not set out clearly how learning will develop in all areas of the early years foundation stage framework, and teachers sometimes miss opportunities to consolidate or extend important ideas.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.