Invicta Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 17 April 2024

This is a friendly, welcoming and ambitious school. Relationships between leaders, staff and pupils are positive and professional. Leaders have high expectations for the achievement of all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Pupils are well supported to learn the school's curriculum and to take part in all that the school has to offer. Pupils are kind and courteous. They typically demonstrate positive attitudes to their learning by listening carefully and trying hard at the tasks they are given. At breaktime, they play and socialise well together. Developing pupils' personal and social skills begins in the early years, where children learn to take turns, share and listen to each other. All pupils take part in wider experiences that the school carefully selects. For example, pupils in Year 3 are taken on an outing to the coast, and in Year 5, pupils experience an overnight stay on the HMS Belfast. Pupils consistently benefit from the wide range of clubs on offer, developing their interests in areas such as origami, boxing and language learning. Through extensive pupil-leadership opportunities that pupils can take on, the school encourages pupils' wider skills, such as teamwork, commitment and willingness to help others. Pupils enjoy taking up roles, including as school journalists, 'music maestros', eco-warriors and friendship buddies.

What the school should improve

• In some subjects where the curriculum has been recently redeveloped, the school does not have as clear a picture of how well pupils learn the curriculum as in other subjects. In some instances, teaching does not focus systematically on checking pupils' understanding. As a result, pupils' misconceptions are sometimes not identified and addressed. In other instances, sometimes the curriculum does not build well on what pupils already know. As a result, pupils' knowledge does not develop as securely as it might. The school must ensure that checks on pupils' knowledge and understanding identify any misconceptions and that new curriculum content builds cumulatively on what pupils know and can do already.

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