West Rise Primary School and Nursery

Overview

This ungraded inspection confirms that West Rise Community Infant School has “taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection.” The report describes a school where “pupils thrive” within a “nurturing and supportive environment” that fosters confidence and independence. Leaders and governors provide effective challenge and support, ensuring high expectations for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate “positive attitudes and behaviour,” treating one another with kindness and arriving with a “skip and a smile.”
• The curriculum is “ambitious and sequenced logically,” with reading as a “top priority” and phonics taught well from Reception.
• Staff possess “strong subject knowledge” and explain learning clearly, particularly in English and mathematics where content is revisited regularly.
• Pupils with SEND receive “bespoke support” and integrate well into lessons, with needs identified effectively.
• The school promotes wider development through “carefully planned enrichment activities” and teaches pupils to be “physically and mentally healthy.”

Areas to improve

• In some subjects, teaching does not provide sufficient opportunities for pupils to revisit key knowledge, leading to some pupils forgetting important learning. The school should ensure pupils have “sufficient opportunities to revisit key learning, so they remember more of what they have been taught.”

Safeguarding

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