Yavneh Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 1 April 2025

'A world built on kindness' underpins all that happens at this school. Staff instil in pupils the important values they need to be well prepared for life beyond Yavneh. Staff and pupils live and breathe 'The Yavneh Way' in all they do. This creates a close-knit community where pupils thrive. Pupils behave exceptionally well throughout the day. Children in the Reception Year quickly learn the routines and high expectations staff have of them. This helps pupils to become effective learners and to achieve highly. Break and lunchtimes are positive times of the day. Pupils happily come together as one to climb on the climbing frames or play basketball on the multi-use games area. Pupils benefit from the rich and varied enrichment offer. The curriculum inspires pupils to develop new talents such as learning to play the trombone. Pupils represent their school with pride as members of the choir or in various local sporting events. Carefully chosen trips, to places such as The Royal Albert Hall or Shakespeare's Globe, teach pupils more about the topics they learn in school. This all helps to spark pupils' aspirations as future archaeologists, artists, computer programmers and more.

What the school should improve

• Sometimes, teaching does not support pupils to consistently apply their knowledge of handwriting, grammar, punctuation and spelling. When this happens, these pupils do not write as well as they could. The school should ensure that teaching provides pupils with the support they need to consistently apply this knowledge in their independent work.

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