John Keats Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 22 February 2023

Pupils enjoy coming to this warm and welcoming school. Working relationships between adults and children are respectful and caring. As a result, pupils say they feel well looked after. They trust adults to deal with any issues or worries they have. Bullying is rare. If it does happen, pupils know that adults will deal with it quickly. Leaders, staff and pupils are guided by the school's core values of communicator, resilience, enquire, thinker, risk taker and empathy. Adults show pupils how to put these values into practice. Pupils enjoy getting a 'value' sticker to recognise and celebrate when they have been seen using them. Leaders and staff have high expectations of pupils' learning and behaviour, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Leaders are ambitious for what pupils can and will achieve and this begins as soon as they start school in the early years. This is reflected in the curriculum that has been created. Leaders also make sure that routines and expectations for behaviour are clear. Pupils are polite, friendly and follow the school's rules. Classrooms are calm and pupils are able to concentrate on their learning. Pupils enjoy the range of extra-curricular clubs on offer, such as cookery, dance, coding or arts and crafts. These are all planned to provide pupils with the opportunity to develop their talents and interests.

What the school should improve

• In some subjects, leaders have not explicitly defined the small sequential steps that pupils need to take in their learning in order to ensure that they achieve the identified end goals. This affects how well the curriculum enables pupils to recall and remember subject content. Leaders should make sure that the curriculum is designed to support pupils to acquire and remember knowledge in a logical manner.
• In the delivery of some curriculum subjects, checks on what pupils know do not pick up and respond to gaps in pupils' learning or misconceptions. This means that, at times, teaching does not build successfully on what pupils already know. Leaders should support subject leaders and teachers to check what pupils know and identify and address misconceptions or gaps in a timely way.

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