Whittington Primary and Nursery School

Overview: Whittington Primary and Nursery School is a well-led school where teamwork, integrity and professionalism shine out. Pupils have high attendance and respond very well to leaders' high expectations for their behaviour. The school provides a calm, caring, safe place where everyone is well looked after.

Strengths:

• Pupils have high attendance and respond very well to leaders' high expectations for their behaviour.
• The school provides a calm, caring, safe place where everyone is well looked after.
• Staff are excellent role models and apply the school’s behaviour policy with consistency.
• The school teaches pupils how to resolve conflict and to manage their feelings in constructive ways.
• The school provides a broad and inclusive curriculum, which pupils enjoy.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should continue to strengthen subject leadership in some subjects through evidence-informed training and support.
• Leaders should refine aspects of the curriculum in some foundation subjects so that pupils make even better progress across the whole curriculum.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, and leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfil their specific responsibilities and have established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.