Claydon Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 18 October 2022

Pupils are proud to attend Claydon Primary School. They consider that it is a special place to learn and be with their friends. The school's 'five C's' of culture, community, character, curriculum and collaboration thread through its work. These help pupils to make the right choices. They all strive to 'be the best they can be'. Leaders have high expectations for pupils to do well. Pupils build trusting relationships with adults. They are respectful, whether working in class or playing outdoors. Pupils enjoy their learning. They willingly help and support one another. As one pupil said, 'Everybody respects everyone at this school.' Pupils behave well. Low-level disruption is rare. Pupils consider that bullying does not occur at their school. They know what bullying looks like. Pupils know that if it did happen, adults would deal with it quickly. Pupils take part in different local events. This helps them to think about the needs within their local community. It encourages them to be active citizens and to understand their responsibilities in the wider world. The majority of parents appreciate how staff work with their children. One parent reflected this, describing the school as 'a great school with a strong sense of living its values and where demonstrating the right behaviours is as important as academic achievement'.

What the school should improve

• Not all subjects of the curriculum provide the sufficient details required to inform teachers' planning. Leaders have not yet developed ways of checking the impact of some aspects of the curriculum, such as science. Leaders do not know how well pupils achieve over time in these subjects. Leaders should ensure that the curriculum is fully developed and that they evaluate how well pupils build their knowledge across the curriculum by providing the time and training for subject leaders to carry out these evaluations.
• A few pupils are not provided with books that are well matched to the sounds that they know. This means that they are not developing the confidence they need to read accurately and fluently. Leaders should ensure that every child has books that are matched to the phonics they know to help them to learn to read quickly.

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