Littleton Green Community School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 7 January 2025

Pupils and staff have a strong sense of belonging at Littleton Green. It provides a happy and supportive environment, where pupils feel valued and achieve well. The school's ethos is guided by its 'PURPLE' values: Proud, Unique, Reflective, Positive, Loving and Empowered. Pupils speak proudly of raising funds to buy their purple school blazers, which they wear with pride. The school has high expectations for pupils' academic achievement. In many areas, especially reading and mathematics, these expectations are achieved successfully. Pupils are eager to learn and keen to talk about their work. Pupils enjoy coming to school, as evidenced by their enthusiasm and regular attendance. They are friendly and older pupils regularly supervise and support younger children. Most pupils have positive attitudes to learning and behave well. Those who need extra help talk positively about attending 'solution circle' sessions. This is where they learn strategies to manage their emotions positively and resolve any differences responsibly. Many pupils are mature in their outlook and relish the roles and responsibilities they are given. For example, 'head journalist' or 'green guardian'. They enjoy the wide range of clubs, educational visits and exciting events the school provides to enrich and extend their learning.

What the school should improve

• Sometimes, teachers do not ensure that pupils secure the basic punctuation, grammar and spelling skills needed to write coherently, before moving them on to more challenging writing concepts. Additionally, pupils do not learn to develop neat and cursive handwriting. As a result, some pupils struggle to write simple words and sentences correctly, and their handwriting is not well formed. The school should ensure that teachers provide sufficient opportunities for pupils to practise and secure the essential skills needed to write accurately and neatly, and that common errors are consistently picked up and addressed.
• There is variation in how well staff apply the school's recently revised behaviour policy. In addition, the number of pupils suspended is too high. Low-level disruption is not addressed swiftly enough and where behaviour escalates, can result in some pupils being suspended. The school should ensure that the implementation of its behaviour strategy is implemented consistently to reduce the risk of pupils' behaviour escalating and lower the number of suspensions.

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