Cadmore End CofE School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 12 March 2024

Pupils love coming to this school. They share warm and caring relationships with the staff, who listen to and work with pupils to solve any concerns. As a result, pupils feel safe. Pupils know the school's values of love, honesty, respect, faith, courage and empathy. The values guide the way pupils behave. Staff provide clear and consistent expectations, so the vast majority of pupils behave well. This school is ambitious for all pupils to do well and achieve their best. Adults set clear expectations for learning and most pupils rise to meet these expectations. They work hard in lessons and achieve well, especially in reading and mathematics. Pupils learn resilience from the leadership opportunities the school offers. For example, pupils can become school council members, eco leaders and forest school rangers. These experiences develop pupils' understanding of democracy. The school's extensive and carefully planned outside learning provision helps pupils practise and consolidate further what they have learned in lessons. For example, pupils learn about rainforests in geography and then conduct tasks in the school's outside area to develop their understanding further.

What the school should improve

• In music and French, the school has not precisely identified the knowledge that pupils need to learn and when these should be taught. As a result, teachers are not clear about what to teach and when in these subjects. The school needs to ensure that subject leaders identify this important knowledge clearly so that pupils develop secure subject knowledge over time.
• In some subjects, the school does not provide tasks that ensure pupils retain important knowledge. Pupils remember the activity they do but do not always remember what they learned. The school should plan activities that implement the intended curriculum across all subjects so that pupils can remember knowledge over time.

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