Frodingham Infant School
Rowland Road, Scunthorpe, DN16 1STOpen in maps (opens in a new tab)
Frodingham Infant School is a primary school in Scunthorpe for ages 3 to 7. It is one of the 90 schools in North Lincolnshire. Its latest Ofsted inspection, in September 2024, graded each key judgement and gave no overall Ofsted rating.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 24 September 2024, report published 12 November 2024
This inspection graded each key judgement and gave no overall effectiveness grade.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Early years provision
- Good
- Safeguarding
- Met
What Ofsted said
From the inspection on 24 September 2024
Pupils are happy and productive at this school. They are polite and kind to each other. Pupils know that staff will sort out any problems that they may have. Pupils enjoy school and take part in clubs such as gymnastics or football. The school has high expectations of what pupils can achieve. Children in the early years quickly learn routines and important skills such as taking turns and counting. However, as pupils move through the school some of them fall behind in the curriculum. They then do not catch up quickly enough. This is sometimes missed by staff. Pupils enjoy their lunchtimes and breaktimes. There are a range of games and activities for them to take part in. Behaviour in classrooms is mostly positive and staff build warm and encouraging relationships with pupils. Any issues with friendships are quickly resolved. The school has designed a thorough and aspirational personal development programme for pupils. This ensures that pupils are taught important concepts about being kind and looking after each other. They learn about the fundamental British values and how to be respectful in an age-appropriate way.
What the school should improve
- The pedagogy used by the school is often not clearly linked to the content of the curriculum and what pupils need to remember. Some strategies used by staff do not allow pupils to practise, and therefore secure, important knowledge. The school should train staff in effective pedagogical strategies that support the subject-specific aims of the curriculum.
- Monitoring in the school has not focused sufficiently on the quality of the implementation of the curriculum and its impact. Teachers' implementation of the curriculum is sometimes not helping pupils to learn content in the long term. The school should ensure that the monitoring focuses on the quality of delivery of the curriculum and supports teachers to improve where needed.
- In key stage 1, teachers sometimes miss where pupils have a misconception or have not understood something. Some pupils then continue to make mistakes. The school should ensure that teachers spot where this is happening and respond to it in a timely way to avoid misconceptions being formed.
Pupil numbers and mix
192 pupils on roll, with places for 210
Schools near Frodingham Infant School
| School | Distance | Ofsted | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bushfield Road Infant School | 0.5 miles | Ofsted judgements: Requires improvement to good | Not published |
| Scunthorpe CofE Primary School | 0.5 miles | Ofsted: Good | 45% met the expected standard |
| Outwood Junior Academy Brumby | 0.6 miles | Ofsted: Good | 67% met the expected standard |
| Oasis Academy Henderson Avenue | 0.8 miles | Ofsted: Good | 60% met the expected standard |
| Crosby Primary School | 1 mile | Ofsted: Good | 45% met the expected standard |
School details
- School type
- Community school
- Sector
- Local authority maintained
- Age range
- 3 to 7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Nursery classes
- Yes
- Headteacher
- Mrs Christina Mallender
- Phone
- 01724842408
- Address
- Rowland Road, Scunthorpe, DN16 1ST
- Local authority
- North Lincolnshire
- URN
- 117748
School details from Get Information about Schools, 17 September 2026. Ofsted outcomes published to 31 August 2026. Pupil mix from the school census, 2025/26.