The Gainsborough Charles Baines Community Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 21 January 2025

The school is welcoming and caring. Most pupils enjoy coming to school. The school has ensured that pupils study a broad and ambitious curriculum. However, while there have been some improvements in how teachers deliver the curriculum, pupils do not achieve as well as they should. Pupils feel well-cared for and safe. They know they can talk to many staff if they have any worries. Pupils understand the school rules. They know how they should behave, which has helped to improve their behaviour in lessons. However, too many pupils need reminding of classroom and school routines. At playtime and lunchtime, most pupils play and socialise well together. This is especially the case when staff provide activities for them to do at these times. The school organises trips and visits that enhance pupils' cultural development. For example, pupils enjoy trips to the seaside, theatre, farms and the Peak District. The school provides a range of opportunities for pupils to develop their interests. Pupils enjoy attending choir, sports clubs, and computing and arts club. They also enjoy taking on extra responsibilities that help to build their character. Pupils are proud to be well-being champions, play leaders, prefects and school councillors.

What the school should improve

• In some classes, classroom routines are not well established. This means that, at times, learning time is lost when pupils transition between activities, as they need reminding of expectations. As a result, some pupils do not learn as well as they should. The school should ensure that effective learning routines are established that pupils understand and follow.
• In some lessons, staff do not implement the curriculum effectively. Teachers do not check pupils' understanding effectively or ensure that activities are well-matched to the intended learning. This means some pupils do not learn as well as they should. The school should ensure that teachers implement the curriculum effectively, by systematically checking pupils' understanding and using learning activities that are well matched to the intended learning.
• Teachers do not ensure that pupils, including children in the Reception Year, develop a detailed knowledge of the important vocabulary the school has detailed that pupils should learn. As a result, some pupils do not use this vocabulary well in their speaking and writing. The school should ensure that pupils develop a secure understanding and use a range of vocabulary orally and in their writing.
• Some pupils do not consistently produce high-quality written work. Some pupils' writing contains basic grammar and punctuation errors, which staff do not routinely address. As a result, some pupils do not develop their writing as well as they should. The school should ensure that teachers have high expectations of the written work pupils produce so that their work is of a high quality.

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