Whitley and Eggborough Community Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 7 November 2023

Whitley and Eggborough Community Primary School is a welcoming environment for pupils. Pupils are well cared for by staff and feel safe. They recognise that the school's 'CHAS' (caring, helping and sharing) values help them develop into mature individuals. Pupils are well behaved. Lessons are rarely disrupted by poor behaviour. Relationships between adults and pupils are respectful and warm. Since the last inspection, the quality of education provided by the school has notably improved. Pupils enjoy attending school and learning new things. Most pupils achieve well and are prepared effectively for their next steps in education. The school provides a range of opportunities to support pupils' broader development. Pupils take on leadership roles, such as school councillor, reading ambassador or eco-committee member. They are proud of these roles and are committed to making a positive contribution to the school. For example, the eco- committee is helping to develop the school's well-being garden. Pupils participate in extra-curricular visits and/or clubs, including those for sports and the performing arts. Leaders have recently started to track pupils' participation in these activities and plan to use this data to inform their planning of future experiences for pupils.

What the school should improve

• The school's safeguarding records are not sufficiently detailed. The school cannot identify patterns and trends efficiently. This limits the school's ability to put appropriate support in place for pupils. The school should ensure that safeguarding records are detailed and well maintained.
• The information that governors receive about the performance of the school is not sufficiently detailed. This limits the depth and insight of the support and challenge governors provide to leaders. Governors should ensure that they receive information that enables them to be consistently well-informed about the performance of the school.
• The routines for checking what pupils know and remember from the curriculum are in development. In some subjects, teachers and leaders do not have a precise understanding of pupils' curriculum knowledge. Adaptations to lessons and interventions to help pupils to catch up are not consistently well informed. The school should ensure that suitable systems exist to check what pupils know.

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