Oak CofE Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 8 July 2025

Pupils are proud to attend Oak Church of England Primary School. They enjoy their lessons, work hard, and take pride in their learning. Relationships between staff and pupils are warm and caring. Staff know the pupils and their families well. They take good care of pupils. Pupils are encouraged to have a voice. They contribute their ideas and views through the school council. Pupils try to make a difference by raising money for different charities. Pupils proudly take on a range of responsibilities, such as reading buddies who are trained to read with younger pupils. The school is determined that pupils will achieve well. A high proportion of pupils join and leave the school during the school year. The school works in this context to ensure that pupils swiftly gain the knowledge and skills needed to learn successfully. Since the last inspection, the school has brought about significant improvements to the curriculum and how well staff teach it. In the early years, children begin to learn to care for one another. Pupils across school are polite and respectful to staff and each other. Pupils are happy and safe because trusted staff listen and support them.

What the school should improve

• In some lessons, alterations to curriculum content do not always match some pupils' learning needs. This means that on occasions important steps in learning are missed out, resulting in gaps in pupils' knowledge. In other lessons, pupils' learning is not moved on and pupils repeatedly complete tasks that they can already do. The school should ensure that when staff make changes to the sequence of learning, these changes meet the needs of pupils consistently.
• In some subjects, the resources that teachers choose can prove too challenging for some pupils to read. When this happens, these pupils struggle to access the learning that teachers intend. The school should ensure that resources are suitably adapted for those who are still at the early stages of learning to read.
• The school's extensive strategies to improve attendance for pupils with SEND are not having the impact it intends. As a result, persistent absence remains high, and pupils miss out on important learning. The school must refocus its approaches to attendance to reduce persistent absence further for these pupils.

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