Thames Ditton Junior School

Overview

Thames Ditton Junior School is described as a “highly inclusive” institution where pupils “thrive” and achieve “very well across the curriculum.” The report highlights a “calm learning environment” and a “caring community” in which staff and pupils feel proud to belong. Leaders demonstrate a “sharp focus” on removing barriers to learning, ensuring that disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities flourish.

Strengths

• Pupils achieve “very well across the curriculum,” with disadvantaged pupils outperforming national averages in reading.
• A “highly effective behaviour strategy” creates “calm environments” where bullying is “rare” and discrimination is “not tolerated.”
• Teachers use a “highly effective, consistent approach to teaching,” routinely checking understanding and addressing misconceptions “swiftly.”
• Leaders have created a “highly inclusive culture” with “well-embedded systems” to identify and support individual needs precisely and timely.
• The personal development programme helps pupils develop a “remarkable awareness of inequality” and a comprehensive understanding of British values.

Areas to improve

• Leaders should “sustain the effectiveness of their work in all areas” to maintain high levels of attendance and achievement.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with an “open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility” ensuring that concerns are “actively identified, acted upon and managed.”