Marldon Church of England Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 5 November 2024

Pupils at Marldon Church of England Primary School flourish because they are valued and motivated to learn. They are encouraged to be self-aware individuals who can confidently speak up for themselves and others. This is because pupils experience a culture of nurture and support alongside high expectations of their behaviour and academic success. Pupils enthuse about their learning across the curriculum. They talk with excitement about how staff make their learning interesting so that they remember it. This results in highly positive attitudes to learning and, consequently, pupils achieve well. Pupils benefit from the values that the school places at the heart of their education. Their wider development is prioritised. This prepares them well, socially and emotionally, for the next stage in their education. For example, pupils successfully undertake roles of mental health ambassadors and play leaders. Younger pupils aspire to do the same. There is a vast array of enrichment experiences that enhance pupils' learning. These include visits, overseas trips, as well as plentiful clubs and opportunities to foster pupils' talents and interests. Collectively, this enables pupils to accurately recognise their school as somewhere they feel fortunate to be a pupil and want to attend.

What the school should improve

• The recent improvements to some subjects in the curriculum, in response to the school's planned monitoring and evaluation, are not fully embedded. This means that, at times, the curriculum is not as effective as it could be and pupils do not learn as well as they could. The school should work to embed the recent developments to its curriculum so that pupils secure new learning, recall it more readily and make relevant links.

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