Woodthorpe Primary School

Overview: Woodthorpe Primary School continues to be a good school, providing a welcoming and inclusive environment where pupils respect differences and celebrate commonalities. Pupils enjoy attending school and achieve well, with the school extending their learning through its carefully planned assembly programme and philosophy for children lessons.

Strengths:

• Pupils enjoy attending a welcoming and inclusive school where they respect differences and celebrate commonalities.
• Pupils benefit from a range of educational visits and other enrichments to the curriculum, including residential visits that contribute to their independence and cultural awareness.
• The school provides rich opportunities that build on pupils' learning in individual subjects, such as watching a show in a planetarium and experiencing a rainforest through virtual reality headsets.
• Children in the early years make a positive start to school, developing important social skills and understanding numbers and measures.
• The school provides effective additional support for pupils who struggle to manage their behaviour, helping them to understand their emotions and improve their behaviour over time.

Areas to improve:

• In some lessons, activities completed by pupils are not as well matched to the learning intention as they could be, with some pupils' learning not focused on the most important knowledge that the school wants them to know.
• The school's approach to teaching important subject-specific vocabulary is not embedded, with some pupils not learning essential vocabulary securely and not using it confidently in their work.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.