Boothroyd Primary Academy

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 1 October 2024

Boothroyd Primary School is a place where pupils are valued as individuals. Staff help pupils to develop into polite, confident and curious learners. Pupils enjoy coming to school. Staff bring the curriculum to life in exciting ways. For example, pupils explore local history on walks in the community. Pupils benefit from exciting experiences, such as welcoming international sports stars into school. The school has high aspirations for all, which begins with the strong start children have in early years. Pupils know more and remember more over time. However, this is not reflected consistently in outcomes across all subject areas. Pupils behave well and are kind to each other. If someone is mean, teachers fix it fast. The school has a buddy system where older pupils help younger ones feel welcome. The school actively promotes equality of opportunity and diversity. This is evident in how pupils work with and serve the community. Pupils read texts that widen their understanding of differences and protected characteristics. This helps to prepare pupils for life in modern Britain. Pupils enjoy after-school activities that develop their talents and interests. The school offers a wide range of extra-curricular clubs, including specialist clubs for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), and opportunities for pupils to be part of sports teams and musical groups. They learn helpful new skills, such as how to use sign language.

What the school should improve

• On occasions, the activities that pupils are asked to complete in mathematics do not support their learning as well as they could. Pupils do not always learn as well as they could when this is the case. The school should carry out further work so that the tasks that pupils are set help them to consistently learn the intended knowledge.
• The school's approach to teaching vocabulary is not fully embedded. This means that some pupils are less confident in understanding subject vocabulary than others. The school should ensure that its approach to teaching vocabulary is embedded successfully across the curriculum.
• In some subjects, the school does not identify what pupils know and understand as well as in others. Where this is the case, gaps in pupils' learning are not identified well enough. The school should ensure that the chosen approaches to checking what pupils know and can do are used consistently well to address gaps in learning.

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