Frogwell Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 11 June 2024

Frogwell Primary School is a friendly place where staff warmly welcome pupils into school each day. Extra support for those who find coming to school difficult is helping pupils to attend more regularly. The school has raised its expectations of what pupils can achieve. However, the curriculum is not always delivered well enough to ensure that pupils gain a deep body of knowledge. Pupils do not achieve as well as they should. In contrast, pupils attending the specially resourced provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (specially resourced provision) get precise support for their needs which builds their independence. Pupils are courteous to one another and to adults. They speak with confidence and are eager to share their views. There is a calm, harmonious atmosphere around school. Pupils are confident that staff will help them with any issues they have. Bullying is not common and is never tolerated. The school enhances pupils' knowledge of the wider world. For instance, work with the local police service helps pupils to understand how to be a good citizen. Experiences such as visits to the library, museum, safari parks and outdoor education centres help pupils to develop their interests and broaden their horizons.

What the school should improve

• Staff do not have sufficient information about the targets of pupils with SEND in mainstream lessons or how best to support them. Consequently, pupils with SEND in mainstream lessons are not able to learn as well as they could. The school needs to ensure that all staff know how to best support all the pupils that they work with.
• Teachers' teaching knowledge is not always sufficient to ensure that they teach the curriculum effectively. This means pupils do not learn as effectively as they could. The school should ensure that all teachers deliver the ambitious curriculum to the standard leaders expect.
• Monitoring and evaluation of the quality of the school's work does not provide an accurate view. This means leaders do not always know what is going well and where further development is needed. The school needs to make sure that it knows the result of the actions taken and adapts approaches when needed in order to bring about improvement.
• Those with responsibility for governance do not yet have sufficient knowledge of their role. This prevents them from carrying out their roles and responsibilities as effectively as they could. Governors need to develop their strategic oversight so that they can challenge school leaders as well as support them.

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