Stoke Row CofE Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 14 May 2024

Pupils benefit from attending this safe and supportive school. Parents are eager to share how much their child has flourished since joining the school. Pupils know and are proud to show their school's values of kindness, courage, excellence, perseverance and respect. They have positive and trusting relationships with adults in school. Pupils know that these adults want the best for them. Due to this, pupils strive to meet the high expectations that adults have for how they will behave and learn. The small school environment means that all pupils and staff know each other well. Consequently, staff meet the personal and learning needs of pupils effectively. Pupils behave very well in all areas of the school. The school playground is a joyful environment where pupils treat each other and adults with kindness and respect. Staff make sure that pupils have a range of activities during playtime and help pupils to take part in them. Therefore, pupils learn important social skills such as sharing and taking turns. Pupils value the range of leadership opportunities they are given. Whether as school councillors, class monitors or mentors to younger children, pupils learn to be responsible members of their community.

What the school should improve

• Whole-school absence is high. Subsequently, not all pupils benefit as well as they could from the learning and wider opportunities that the school offers. The school should continue to embed and develop the strategies it has recently implemented in order to improve pupils' attendance further.
• The school is still refining the overall sequencing and assessment approach of some foundation curriculum areas. This means that in these subjects, the expectations for what pupils will learn are not as ambitious as they could be, and teachers are not able to precisely identify pupils' specific gaps in knowledge. The school should make sure that teachers have the knowledge they need to precisely sequence learning and to have clarity on how they are assessing pupils across the entire curriculum.
• Changes to the curriculum in Reception are not yet complete. As a result, some activities are less well designed than others, and children do not always learn as well as they could. The school must ensure that ambitious intended outcomes are identified and shared with staff in Reception so that planned activities lead to children in Reception achieving highly.

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