Crawford Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 1 April 2025

Pupils enjoy coming to school. They say that they feel happy, safe and valued. Positive relationships between staff and pupils empower pupils to do their best and achieve well. Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), enjoy the caring and nurturing environment that the school provides. Pupils rise to the high expectations staff have of them. They progress well through the curriculum and try hard to uphold the school values and become good citizens. As one pupil put it, 'school helps us to be an upstander not a bystander'. Pupils benefit from a range of school clubs, including those for sports, music, drama and art. They also benefit from a range of educational outings and talk enthusiastically about their visits to museums and to the beach, for example. From the moment children join the Nursery or Reception classes, great emphasis is placed on developing language, communication and early reading skills. This helps pupils to be successful in learning to read as well as using their reading skills to help them to learn across the curriculum. Pupils play happily together in the playground. They are respectful of boundaries and rules and, most of the time, they behave well in lessons. Any behaviour incidents are usually resolved promptly. Pupils say that bullying is rare and is dealt with effectively.

What the school should improve

• In a few subjects, some activities which pupils are asked to complete are not adapted well enough to meet their needs or respond to their existing knowledge. This affects how well some pupils build their knowledge and skills in these subjects. Where this is the case, the school should ensure that the curriculum is implemented consistently well for pupils through careful adaptations that promote secure learning.
• The school's work to develop and refine its ambitious curriculum to respond to the individual learning needs of pupils with complex speech, language and communication needs is currently under development. This means that, while pupils' well-being and learning are supported effectively overall, the curriculum is not enabling these pupils to build up knowledge as well as it could. The school should make sure that it strengthens its curriculum thinking, setting out clearly and consistently what it intends pupils to learn and how this builds progressively.

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