Threemilestone School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 1 October 2024

This is a warm and welcoming school. Inclusion is central to the school's vision of ensuring every pupil belongs. Pupils learn in a calm and orderly setting. The school takes its time to get to know pupils and their families well. This helps pupils thrive. They enjoy coming to school and love to learn. Their high attendance is evidence of their positive attitudes to learning. The school's ambitious curriculum reflects the school's high expectations of what pupils can achieve, starting in the early years. Pupils rise to these expectations and learn the curriculum well. Pupils' wider development is exceptional. The school goes above and beyond to provide pupils with experiences beyond the academic. This begins before children join the school. For example, a summer picnic supports children in their transition into Reception Year. The school celebrates diversity. Pupils learn about different faiths and cultures throughout their time at school. The carefully selected books, artists and musicians that pupils learn about broaden their understanding of the world. Pupils are well prepared for life in modern Britain. They have a lived experience of democracy through pupil leadership elections, such as 'PALs' (Pupils As Leaders). Pupils are rightly proud of the difference they make to their school.

What the school should improve

• On some occasions, strategies used by teachers to check what pupils know are not precise enough to identify gaps in pupils' knowledge or to establish pupils' readiness for new learning. As a result, some pupils do not deepen their knowledge fully. The school needs to ensure that checks on what pupils know are used effectively to adapt subsequent learning to build on what pupils know and can do.

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