Stoke Park Infant School

Overview

Stoke Park Infant School continues to be a good school, providing a calm atmosphere where pupils are happy, engaged, and well cared for. The school delivers a well-planned curriculum with high expectations, particularly benefiting pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) through swift identification and effective support.

Strengths

• Pupils are proud to follow the school’s ‘RANGER’ values, demonstrating resilience and kindness, while enjoying frequent outdoor learning and leadership roles such as ‘Eco warriors’.
• The curriculum is carefully sequenced with key knowledge broken into small steps, resulting in strong progress in early reading and mathematics where staff use clear presentation and questioning.
• Pupils with SEND are ‘particularly well supported’, flourishing in a specialist resource provision that offers a ‘quiet, calm environment’ and allows them to learn alongside peers.
• Governors have an ‘accurate view’ of the school’s strengths and needs, supporting leaders effectively while being conscious of staff workload and well-being.

Areas to improve

• Assessment is not used routinely in a small number of subjects, meaning future teaching does not always build precisely on what pupils already know.
• Learning activities in the early years are not always as effective as they need to be, leading to variability in consistency and occasional disengagement.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with pupils trusting adults to keep them safe and help navigate friendship issues.