Walmore Hill Primary School

Overview

Walmore Hill Primary School is described as an “improving school” with a strong ethos of “All different, All equal,” where pupils are “happy and safe.” While leadership has driven positive change and behaviour is “impressive,” the quality of education and early years provision currently “Requires improvement” due to inconsistencies in curriculum delivery and assessment.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate “high levels of respect and kindness” and quickly learn the school’s behavioural expectations.
• The school provides “high-quality pastoral support” and helps pupils celebrate diversity and stay safe.
• Staff are “skilled in the teaching of phonics,” resulting in most pupils becoming “confident readers.”
• Leaders and governors have a “detailed and accurate knowledge” of the school’s impact and hold it firmly to account.
• Pupils enjoy rich developmental experiences, such as residential trips, which build “perseverance, resilience and leadership skills.”

Areas to improve

• The curriculum is not “implemented securely” in some subjects, preventing pupils from gaining the necessary depth of knowledge.
• Checks on what pupils know and remember are “underdeveloped,” meaning the school is not always clear about pupil retention.
• Learning is not adapted “sufficiently well” for some pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), causing them to struggle with new concepts.

Safeguarding

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