Thatto Heath Community Primary School

Overview

Thatto Heath Community Primary School provides a high-quality education where pupils are described as “happy and safe” and embody values of being “ready, respectful and safe.” The school maintains “high expectations of pupils’ achievement,” resulting in students who “work hard in lessons” and typically achieve well across a range of subjects. Leaders have established a “broad, balanced and ambitious curriculum” supported by effective staff training and strong governance.

Strengths

• The curriculum is “well-designed,” ensuring children are “suitably prepared for the demands of Year 1” and pupils in key stage 2 are “typically ready for secondary school.”
• Staff are “expertly trained in the teaching of phonics,” allowing most pupils to “learn to read confidently by the end of Year 2.”
• The school has “successfully cultivated a love of reading,” with regular library visits and designated reading areas in classrooms.
• Pupils benefit from a “wide range of opportunities” for personal development, including extra-curricular clubs, musical performances, and roles of responsibility.
• Leaders effectively support staff well-being, with staff reporting they are “overwhelmingly positive about the support that they receive.”

Areas to improve

• The school must “finalise its systems to check how well pupils are learning new knowledge” in a small number of subjects where assessment systems are currently incomplete.
• Leaders should ensure that pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) “learn the breadth of knowledge that they need across the curriculum” to be fully prepared for their next steps.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”