Oakwood Infant School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 13 July 2022

Pupils flourish at this happy and welcoming school. Children get off to an excellent start in Reception with their learning and personal development. This sets a secure foundation for pupils to build on as they move through the school. Leaders and staff are ambitious for every pupil to do well in their learning and wider development. Pupils are inspired to work hard to meet their teachers' high expectations. They are resilient and recognise that mistakes are a part of learning. As one pupil commented, 'It is fine to make mistakes because we learn from them.' Pupils demonstrate the school values of respect, equality, self-belief, perseverance, excellence, creativity and teamwork. They are proud to wear their respect badges for demonstrating these qualities at home and at school. Pupils feel cared for because of the positive and warm relationships with staff. This helps pupils to feel safe. Staff use the clear school rules of 'respect, learn, safe' to support pupils to understand how they are expected to behave. From the start of Reception, pupils learn to be kind to others. Bullying is rare and staff listen and support pupils with any worries they have.

What the school should improve

• The school's curriculum is not yet sufficiently well planned and sequenced in a few subjects. However, it is clear from leaders' actions that they are in the process of bringing this about. Leaders need to complete the process of reviewing the curriculum in all subjects within their identified timescale. For this reason, the transitional arrangements have been applied
• In some foundation subjects, staff do not accurately check pupils' learning. Consequently, in these subjects, pupils do not secure their learning well enough. Leaders should ensure that staff consistently check that pupils have learned and remembered the most important knowledge and skills.

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