Stirches Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that the headteacher has established a “strong and positive culture” with a “calm and purposeful environment for learning.” While the nursery class received “good” evaluations, the primary school’s learning, teaching, and assessment were judged as “satisfactory.” The report confirms the school has the capacity to continue improving without further inspection visits.

Strengths

• Children behave very well within a “calm and purposeful environment for learning.”
• Staff have improved their approaches to using data to “identify gaps in children’s learning.”
• Nursery practitioners engage children well through a range of indoor and outdoor experiences.
• There is a “strong focus on helping all children to achieve the best possible outcomes” in the nursery.

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders should support teachers to reflect on their practice to ensure it is “improving children’s progress in learning.”
• Staff need to involve children in planning what and how they learn so children know “how well they are progressing.”
• Staff should continue to raise children’s levels of attainment in literacy and numeracy at all stages.

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific statements regarding safeguarding arrangements or outcomes.