Clavering Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 4 May 2022

Pupils at Clavering Primary delight in their learning. They are highly motivated to work hard and do well. They particularly appreciate the huge range of opportunities for them to learn new things outside their day-to-day lessons. For example, all pupils learn to play brass and other instruments during their time in the school. Pupils are enthused by the visitors who come to the school. Pupils talk excitedly about the authors and the local magistrate who have visited recently. Pupils' behaviour is exemplary. They are polite and friendly. They say that everyone is quickly made to feel welcome in their school. Older pupils take their responsibilities such as head girl and head boy or play leader seriously. They look out for the younger ones and help them play games at breaktimes. Pupils develop teamwork through regular visits to their woodland area. Bullying is rare, but pupils are clear that adults sort out any problems quickly. Children in early years make a very strong start to their education. They focus on activities for extended periods of time, and are highly motivated to take part in learning. They are very well prepared to move into key stage 1.

What the school should improve

• While in areas of the curriculum pupils achieve well, there remain some aspects of the curriculum that require further development. Where this is the case, pupils' understanding lacks the depth of knowledge over time and this impacts on how well they achieve. This leads pupils to not be able to apply their learning in more complex situations and contexts. Furthermore, planning, staff training, and leaders' monitoring are less well developed. Leaders need to ensure that they have systems to check that planning and teaching in all areas of the curriculum are equally ambitious and high quality.

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