Carr Green Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 23 January 2024

Pupils receive a warm welcome into Carr Green Primary School each morning. Staff know pupils well. Pupils feel safe and have a trusted adult who they can talk to. Pupils talk confidently about the school values of respect, responsibility and resilience. They are polite and courteous when talking to visitors about their school. Since the last inspection, standards declined. The curriculum required significant improvement to ensure that it was meeting the needs of all learners. Leaders have halted this decline. They have made important and much-needed, positive improvements. The curriculum they have put in place is ambitious and well considered. There is now an expectation from leaders and staff that all pupils will achieve well. The school has introduced a new behaviour policy recently. Pupils say that behaviour has improved. They understand the new behaviour systems. They now know what is expected of them. Bullying is rare. However, the behaviour of some older pupils during lessons and at unstructured times does not always live up to the high expectations of leaders. Leaders recognise that there is further work to do to ensure that behaviour across all year groups for all pupils continues to improve at all times of the school day. Promoting pupils' personal development and well-being is a high priority at Carr Green. The school offers a strong personal development offer with an emphasis that everyone is unique. Pupils enjoy additional opportunities to take on leadership responsibilities across the school. The school council speaks proudly of the work that it does, leading on aspects of charity work and fundraising.

What the school should improve

• The delivery of the mathematics curriculum is inconsistent in some classes. As a result, in mathematics, some pupils do not learn as effectively as they do in other subjects. The school should ensure that all teachers are well supported to implement the intended mathematics curriculum consistently and effectively.
• A small group of pupils do not display positive behaviours on occasion during lessons and at unstructured times of the day. This results in some disruption to learning in some year groups and behaviour that does not consistently meet the high expectations of leaders. The school should ensure that its behaviour policy is consistently well embedded across school and that all pupils, in all year groups, understand how to conduct themselves throughout the school day.

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