World's End Infant and Nursery School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 3 October 2023

Pupils are proud of their school and attend happily. Warm and caring relationships enable pupils to feel safe in school and helps them to settle quickly to their learning. They know staff care about them. The vast majority of pupils follow the school rules well and enjoy the learning opportunities available to them. They understand how important it is to try their best. However, a small minority of pupils still find it difficult to do so. Pupils show acceptance and tolerance of this. They understand that some pupils find learning, and behaving well, more difficult than they do. Pupils are polite. They open doors and say please and thank you consistently. Pupils are respectful and understand why this is important. They talk about their rights to an education, to be safe and to be heard. Staff support this aspect of the school's work well. Pupils appreciate the variety of clubs available to them outside of the curriculum. This includes sports, gardening club, first-aid club, cooking club and musical opportunities. They play happily together on the playground, supported by staff who lead them in their games. The school has provided lots of equipment for the pupils to enjoy during their social times.

What the school should improve

• The school does not make sure that staff are trained well enough to support the needs of some pupils with SEND. Staff feel ill-equipped to manage the behaviour of these pupils, so they can access their learning. This means pupils do not engage with their full learning entitlement. The school should ensure that staff have the skills and knowledge, alongside support, to effectively respond to the needs of these pupils.
• The school does not engage well enough with all staff. They do not take enough account of staff well-being. This means that, on occasion, staff feel unsupported in the workplace. The school needs to strengthen its approach, taking account of staff's viewpoint, to ensure strong, shared values and practices are in place, so that pupils' learning and outcomes remain the key focus.
• The school has not identified the precise knowledge that pupils need to learn and remember in all curriculum areas. This means that staff are not clear about what key knowledge they should check that pupils have learned. The school should ensure that all subject curriculums set out the important knowledge that pupils must learn and remember to enable teachers to identify and address any gaps in pupils' learning.

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