Victoria Infant and Nursery School

Overview: Victoria Infant and Nursery School provides a positive and supportive environment where pupils feel happy and safe. The school holds high ambition for pupils to achieve well, and pupils work hard in lessons and make the most of opportunities provided. The school's vision is for pupils to believe in themselves and respect others.

Strengths:

• The school's curriculum is ambitious for pupils, including those with SEND.
• Staff benefit from a range of training, which has helped establish a consistent approach to delivering the curriculum in reading, writing, and mathematics.
• Pupils experience a range of opportunities that prepare them well for life in modern Britain.
• The school has effective systems to identify the needs of pupils with SEND.
• Pupils become fluent readers by the time they leave Year 2, with knowledgeable staff teaching the phonics programme as intended.

Areas to improve:

• In a small number of foundation subjects, some learning activities do not build pupils' understanding of the key knowledge, including vocabulary, resulting in pupils' knowledge being insecure and them not learning as well as they could.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.