Someries Junior School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 12 November 2024

Pupils love coming to Someries Junior School. It is a school where pupils are happy and feel safe. Pupils learn about the school's values of respect, responsibility, tolerance, kindness, aspiration and cooperation, and these underpin the daily life in school. The school has high expectations for every pupil to achieve their very best, regardless of their needs or background. Pupils rise to this and achieve well overall. Staff work well with parents and carers to engage them in their children's learning. This supports pupils' achievement across the curriculum and helps parents know how they can support their children at home. Pupils have many opportunities to join a large variety of clubs to develop their interests. These clubs are well attended, including by disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Pupils can participate in many activities, such as cookery, gardening and different sports. This supports the pupils' wider development. This is a community where diversity and differences are celebrated. Leaders organise a wide range of events, including visiting local care homes and inviting different religious leaders to school. From these opportunities, pupils learn the importance of making a positive contribution to their community.

What the school should improve

• At times, next steps for pupils with SEND are not tailored fully to their needs. This hinders how well some pupils with SEND learn across the curriculum. The school should ensure staff identify next steps that meet the needs of pupils with SEND fully to better support their learning.
• In some subjects, assessment of what pupils know is not as well developed as in others. In these subjects, teachers do not use checks on pupils' understanding effectively to adapt subsequent learning. The school should ensure that teachers check pupils understanding in all subjects and use this information to adapt teaching to build on what pupils know and can do effectively.
• The behaviour policy is not consistently applied by all staff across the school day. Therefore, a small minority of pupils do not always live up to the school's high expectations for behaviour. The school should ensure that all staff have the same high expectations for pupils' behaviour and apply the school's behaviour policy consistently.

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