Acre Hall Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 18 June 2024

Acre Hall is a friendly school where pupils are celebrated for their individuality. Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), and those in the specially resourced provision for pupils with SEND (specially resourced provision), arrive at school happy and keen to learn. The school's values help to ensure that pupils 'respect themselves, each other and the environment'. Following some major changes to the school's curriculum, an increasing number of pupils meet the school's high expectations for academic success. However, some pupils do not achieve as well as they should. This is because the curriculum is not delivered as well as it could be. Pupils, including those who are disadvantaged, have a positive, resilient attitude towards their learning and they behave well. Pupils and their families benefit from the positive relationships that they form with staff. This helps pupils to flourish socially and emotionally. Pupils are highly supportive of one another. Younger children value spending quality time with older pupils who offer guidance and act as role models. For example, older pupils act as reading buddies and lunchtime servers to younger pupils. Pupils are proud to be awarded positions of responsibility, such as acting as prefects, school councillors and online safety ambassadors. They carry out these roles diligently.

What the school should improve

• Some learning activities do not deepen pupils' learning. Consequently, some pupils do not learn as well as they could. The school should ensure that staff are suitably equipped to design learning tasks that help pupils, including those in the early years, to learn the curriculum effectively.
• In a small number of subjects, the school has not ensured that pupils' misconceptions are identified and corrected in a timely manner. This means that some pupils do not develop an accurate body of knowledge as well as they could. The school should check pupils' misconceptions are identified and addressed quickly and effectively.
• In some subjects, the school has not ensured that it checks the impact of the curriculum on pupils' learning sufficiently well. This means that the school is unable to evaluate and modify the curriculum as well as it should. The school should ensure that it checks the impact of the curriculum on pupils' learning effectively so that it can make suitable improvements to the curriculum when required.

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