Werrington Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 25 June 2024

Werrington Primary School is a happy place to learn, where everyone is respected. Pupils follow the school's values of being kind, respectful and responsible and doing their best. Pupils embrace these values and try hard to follow them. Pupils behave well and show high levels of engagement and interest in lessons. Relationships between staff and pupils are strong. Pupils are confident to share their worries with staff. Pupils enjoy the fun activities and experiences that teachers plan for them. For example, the whole school enjoyed the Year 6 enterprise summer fair. Teachers explain learning clearly. The curriculum is tailored to meet pupils' needs, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). As a result, pupils achieve well. Through the wide enrichment opportunities, pupils learn about their local area and the world around them. They talk enthusiastically about visitors and the places they have been to. Pupils value the responsibilities they have to make the school a better place. These include school council representatives, house captains and prefects. There are a range of clubs on offer, but pupils would welcome more opportunities for clubs and leadership roles.

What the school should improve

• In some subjects, the school has not set out clearly what it wants pupils to know and learn. This means that teachers do not know the core knowledge that pupils need to know and that they need to build on to progress through the curriculum. As a result, pupils' knowledge is not secure, and they struggle to connect prior learning to new learning. The school needs to ensure that it identifies clearly the core knowledge that pupils should learn in each subject
• In a few subjects, the school's approaches to checking pupils' understanding are currently not fully developed. This means that teachers are not identifying gaps in pupils' knowledge quickly enough and this is limiting pupils' progress, as work is not always well matched to what pupils already know. The school needs to ensure that approaches are in place for teachers to check what pupils have learned and use this to plan lessons and set work that matches pupils' stage of learning so that pupils can build on their learning over time.

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