Trumacar Nursery and Community Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 4 May 2023

Pupils, including children in the early years, enjoy coming to school. They feel happy and safe, and they try their best during lessons. Leaders expect pupils to achieve highly so that they can succeed in later life. To this end, leaders ensure that pupils benefit from an ambitious curriculum and that they are informed well about potential careers. This helps pupils to understand the value of a high-quality education. Pupils strive to live up to leaders' high expectations of their achievement. Pupils behave impeccably. They are respectful to each other, and they consider carefully how their own behaviour might impact others. They are clear that everyone is welcome in their school. Pupils understand leaders' rules for exceptional behaviour, and they follow staff's instructions diligently. Pupils recognise the harmful effects of bullying, and they are confident that any incidents will be dealt with swiftly by staff. Leaders deal with any poor behaviour, including incidents of bullying, appropriately. Pupils develop their interests and character through a broad range of clubs, including sports, karaoke, chess and crochet. Pupils willingly take on extra responsibilities in school where they can demonstrate the Trumacar values. For example, pupils relish taking part in charitable events. They also enjoy leading 'pupil-power days' where they develop their resilience and have opportunities to debate current issues.

What the school should improve

• In some subjects, leaders have not finalised the most important subject-specific concepts that they want pupils to revisit over time. This hinders teachers from designing learning for pupils. Leaders should ensure that teachers are clear about which key concepts to teach and when to revisit them so that pupils know and remember more over time.
• Leaders have not ensured that staff deliver some aspects of the PSHE curriculum consistently well. This means that some pupils do not have the depth of knowledge that they should about some British values and protected characteristics. Leaders should ensure that staff receive the training that they need to implement this curriculum consistently well so that pupils develop the wider knowledge and skills that they should.

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