Orleans Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 25 June 2024

Pupils feel safe and happy at this warm and friendly school. The school has ensured that its curriculum helps pupils to learn well and receive a broad and enriched education. Pupils enjoy their learning and attendance is extremely high. Pupils are highly motivated to learn in class and their conduct is orderly and calm around the school. Pupils are respectful to each other and behave with maturity. The school develops pupils' resilience and perseverance well so that pupils view challenges and setbacks as opportunities to learn. Children in the early years quickly develop emotional awareness and routinely exhibit kindness to one another. Pupils across the school are courteous and polite. The school provides an array of enrichment activities to ensure pupils gain valuable life experiences. Pupils take part in trips, singing assemblies, a range of clubs and musical opportunities, as well as taking responsibility for the school's allotment and chickens. The school works with local secondary schools to both prepare pupils for this transition and deepen their learning in some subjects. The school has high expectations for pupils' achievement. Leaders are taking action to ensure that expectations are similarly high for those with special educational needs/and or disabilities (SEND). Parents and carers are largely positive about their child's experience at the school, and there is a growing sense of community.

What the school should improve

• The school does not use assessment routinely well in all subjects to identify and address gaps in pupils' knowledge, errors or misconceptions. As a result, pupils sometimes do not fully understand the key knowledge they need to make progress through the curriculum. The school should ensure that teaching routinely checks what pupils have understood and addresses those gaps identified.
• Sometimes, teaching is not successfully adapted to enable pupils with SEND to meet their potential. As a result, some pupils with SEND do not consistently develop their skills or learn the knowledge presented in depth. The school should ensure that staff have consistently high expectations for all pupils and that teaching is successfully adapted so that these pupils make strong progress.

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