Manor Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 3 July 2023

Pupils appreciate the ethos of kindness leaders create in this school. Right from Reception, pupils are taught to help each other, working with partners according to their strengths. This enables them to build trusting and respectful friendships where everyone is included. Pupils focus well in lessons and walk around the school calmly, holding doors open for others as they pass. Leaders have made the school motto of 'Everyone matters, everyone helps, everyone succeeds' a reality. They are ambitious that all pupils, will learn a rich and interesting curriculum. Pupils are taught how to overcome difficulties and persevere with their learning until they have mastered it. As a result, they attain highly in all areas of the curriculum and are rightly proud of their achievements. As one pupil put it, 'I wouldn't be where I am today without the help my teachers have given me.' Teachers make learning interesting through encouraging pupils to be inquisitive, like practising scientists, artists and mathematicians. Following their visit to Wakehurst place to learn about plants, pupils were excited to find them in other locations, explaining why they grew there. As one parent commented, 'children go to school happily and come out excited to share their day.'

What the school should improve

• Leaders are further refining some curriculum areas. Pupils' understanding in these areas is not as secure as it could be. Leaders should continue their work on these subjects so that pupils revisit key concepts periodically, and fully embed what they have learned in their long-term memory.

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