Tummery Primary School

Overview

The report states that Tummery Primary School “demonstrates the capacity to identify and bring about improvement in the interest of all the learners.” Inspectors rated outcomes for learners, quality of provision, and leadership and management as “Good.” The school is described as a maintained, co-educational primary school with a small enrolment, where staff and parents expressed high levels of satisfaction.

Strengths

• Children achieve “good outcomes in numeracy,” with the most able pupils able to “articulate well the strategies they use to solve numeracy-based problems.”
• Pupils “demonstrate confidence and resilience” and are “generally well-motivated,” showing respect for teachers and peers.
• Teachers “plan effectively for group-work” and use “effective questioning... to good effect in developing deeper understanding.”
• Staff use “effective systems to identify the special educational needs of the children” and develop appropriate support programmes.
• The school’s approach to care and welfare “impacts positively on learning, teaching and outcomes.”

Areas to improve

• The school must “extend the children’s mathematical learning experiences regarding their application of mathematical processes,” particularly in Key Stage 2.
• Leadership needs to “develop more rigorous monitoring and evaluation procedures of learning and teaching,” including more detailed baseline evaluations and concise targets.

Safeguarding

The report confirms that safeguarding arrangements “reflect the guidance from the Department of Education” and that children “feel safe in the school.”