Watercliffe Meadow Community Primary School

Overview: Watercliffe Meadow Community Primary School has maintained the standards identified at the previous inspection, with a positive culture and strong commitment to staff and pupil well-being. Pupils are happy and enjoy attending school, with a strong understanding of personal safety and a range of leadership responsibilities.

Strengths:

• The school is warm and welcoming, with high ambition for pupils' achievements.
• Behaviour across the school is generally positive, with calm and supportive classrooms.
• The school is committed to developing pupils' broader development, with effective residential visits and a strong understanding of personal safety.
• Pupils have a range of leadership responsibilities, including school council and healthy mind champions.
• The phonics curriculum is well-structured, with high-quality training for staff and successful targeted sessions to address gaps in pupils' knowledge.

Areas to improve:

• In some wider curriculum subjects, the strategies used to support pupils to remember the curriculum are not yet fully embedded, resulting in some pupils having gaps in their learning.
• At times, strategies to support pupils to engage in their learning are not consistently applied, resulting in some pupils not learning as much as they could.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.