Victoria Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 28 January 2025

This school is a positive influence at the heart of the community. With pupils of 33 different languages, there is a warm welcome for all. Diversity is celebrated. Parents and carers value the caring support the school provides to their families. The school is ambitious for all. Its quality of education is not reflected in published results. Many pupils, some new to English, arrive at different points of the school year. Some do not have long to get to grips with the curriculum before taking national tests. The school settles pupils quickly. Pupils achieve well from a range of starting points. The personal development and well-being support for pupils is exemplary. Pupils thrive because of the wealth of high-quality enrichment experiences that the school provides. The school instils the ethos that everyone is a leader and a learner. It empowers pupils to have a voice. Pupils are happy and safe. The school's motto 'work hard, be kind' is understood and acted on by pupils. The school's harmonious ethos creates a positive culture where mutual respect is championed and lived by pupils. The consistent approach to behaviour ensures that pupils make positive choices. Relationships are caring.

What the school should improve

• The school does not provide sufficient opportunity for pupils to communicate their written understanding across a range of subjects. This means pupils do not consistently develop the necessary writing skills, leading to automaticity and accuracy. The school should ensure that the curriculum implementation provides sufficient opportunity for pupils to write well for a range of purposes and so improve the quality, accuracy and standards of their written communications.
• Occasionally, teachers do not use their assessment well enough to address gaps in pupils' knowledge and provide suitable next steps for their learning. This means that sometimes pupils do not have the most appropriate tasks or responses from staff to help move learning on or support them in building on prior knowledge. The school should support staff with strategies to check and respond to pupils' needs so that pupils have opportunities that align with their needs to achieve as well as they could.
• Some pupils are absent from school too frequently. This means that they miss too much of the school's high-quality education. The school should ensure that pupils attend school regularly so they do not develop significant gaps in their knowledge from missed learning time.

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