Woodgrange Infant School

Overview: Pupils enjoy coming to Woodgrange Infant School, a kind and welcoming place where they feel safe and supported. The school provides a broad and balanced curriculum, with a strong emphasis on developing pupils' spoken language and fostering a love of reading.

Strengths:

• Pupils are kept safe and know they can rely on staff to help resolve any issues or worries.
• The school has established strong relationships with families, with parents and carers being positive about the school.
• Pupils understand and follow the rules of 'kind hands, kind words, kind thoughts', and typically behave well in classrooms and around the school.
• The school provides additional help for those pupils who need support to manage their behaviour and attendance levels.

Areas to improve:

• In many foundation subjects, the school has not given enough thought to the knowledge, skills, and vocabulary that it wants pupils to know and remember.
• In many foundation subjects, assessment is not used well enough to check what pupils learn and remember, and teaching does not systematically identify or address gaps and misconceptions in pupils' knowledge.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.