Nantwich Primary Academy

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 30 January 2024

Nantwich Primary Academy is a friendly, nurturing and welcoming school. The school has created an atmosphere where pupils, including children in the early years, feel that they belong. Pupils value each other's differences and care for each other well. They feel happy and safe at school. The school has high expectations for pupils' achievement, including those pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). These expectations are realised in the majority of subjects across the curriculum. Typically, pupils are prepared well for secondary school. Pupils' consistently positive behaviour contributes to a calm and orderly environment throughout the school. This supports them to learn the curriculum successfully. In lessons, pupils listen carefully to their teachers, and they work hard. Pupils benefit from a carefully considered wider development offer. As such, by the end of Year 6, pupils leave school as confident, articulate and considerate young people. Older pupils enjoy the numerous opportunities that are available to them to hold positions of responsibility in school. Pupils value the support that they receive to improve their physical and mental health. Pupils appreciate the various visits that the school provides to enrich their learning. For example, older pupils described their visit to a museum where they learned about local history. Pupils spoke confidently about the risks associated with being online and how to protect themselves. Pupils also learn about how to stay safe near rivers and railway lines in the local area.

What the school should improve

• In some subjects, the school has not organised the knowledge that pupils must learn well enough. This means that, from time to time, learning activities do not build on pupils' previous knowledge consistently well. The school should ensure that the specific knowledge that pupils must learn, and the order in which this content should be taught, is clear enough to teachers.
• The school does not use assessment information well enough to identify some older pupils' misconceptions or gaps in their knowledge. As a result, on occasion, these pupils do not learn as well as they should. The school should ensure that teachers are suitably equipped to remedy gaps in older pupils' knowledge before introducing new learning.

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