Worthinghead Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 9 June 2026

Pupils at Worthinghead Primary School feel happy and safe. Most children attend regularly and enjoy being at school. During breaktimes, they play alongside one another happily. Bullying is rare and not tolerated. Pupils learn strategies to help them deal with unkind behaviour. They are confident that staff will help them to resolve conflict where necessary. Pupils enjoy taking on leadership responsibilities. These help them to develop their self-confidence. Opportunities for leadership include being ambassadors and showing new parents around the school. Pupils have a good understanding of how to keep safe, including when they are online. They understand what it means to be a good citizen and how they can positively contribute to their community. Pupils enjoy collecting points for positive behaviour, then swapping them for meaningful experiences. There is a wide range of clubs for pupils to participate in. There is variability in the quality of the curriculum and the teaching that pupils receive. This means that pupils do not learn or achieve as well as they could. Teachers do not consistently check on what pupils know and remember. Consequently, some teachers sometimes move learning on before pupils are ready. Some pupils do not secure the knowledge that they need to prepare them well for the next stage in their education. This includes pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who are disadvantaged. At times, activities in lessons do not match pupils’ needs well enough, and so they become disengaged. This causes disruption in lessons and low-level behaviour concerns. In the early years, adults' expectations for behaviour and learning are inconsistent. This means that children do not make as much progress through the curriculum as they could. The school has a new leadership team. They have identified appropriate actions for improvement. However, it is too early to assess the impact of their work.

What the school should improve

• Leaders should ensure that all pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities or other barriers to learning receive the support they need to help them access lessons successfully.
• Leaders should ensure that staff teach the curriculum to a consistently high standard across the school so that all pupils achieve well.
• Leaders should ensure that all staff consistently apply and reinforce the school's expectations for behaviour to reduce low-level disruption in lessons.
• Leaders should ensure that staff use assessment effectively to check what pupils know and remember and to design lesson activities that meet pupils' needs.
• Leaders should continue to ensure that they support staff in the early years to consistently promote language and learning through high-quality interactions and activities.
• Leaders, including those responsible for governance, should continue to check that the actions they take have the intended impact on pupils' learning and development.

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