Wildground Infant School

Overview

Wildground Infant School remains a ‘good’ school following this ungraded inspection, with evidence suggesting it could achieve an ‘outstanding’ grade if a full graded inspection were conducted. Leaders are ‘aspirational for all pupils’, creating a ‘calm and purposeful place to learn’ where children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, ‘achieve extremely well’. The school’s ethos permeates all aspects of life, supported by staff who are ‘very positive’ about their work and governors who provide ‘intelligent support and challenge’.

Strengths

• The curriculum is ‘ambitious and established’, with ‘strong subject expertise’ and lessons designed with ‘precision’ to build on previous learning.
• Early years provision is ‘exceptional’, with staff who are ‘experts in early education’ skilfully adapting to children’s starting points.
• Reading is taught well using a precise phonics programme, ensuring pupils who fall behind ‘catch up quickly’.
• Behaviour is ‘excellent’, with pupils understanding the school’s ‘REACH’ values and receiving ‘expert support’ when managing feelings.
• The school is highly inclusive, ensuring ‘no child misses out on any opportunity’, with a ‘plethora of clubs’ and enrichment activities.

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement, noting that previous issues with disadvantaged pupils’ mathematics attainment have been addressed effectively through a new scheme.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are ‘effective’, with all staff understanding their role in keeping pupils safe and an ‘open and positive culture’ that puts pupils’ interests first.