Yaxley Infant School
Main Street, Yaxley, Peterborough, PE7 3LUOpen in maps (opens in a new tab)
Yaxley Infant School is a primary school in Peterborough for ages 5 to 7. It is one of the 309 schools in Cambridgeshire. Its latest Ofsted rating is Good, from an inspection in November 2022.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 2 November 2022, report published 15 December 2022
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Early years provision
- Good
- Safeguarding
- Met
What Ofsted said
From the inspection on 2 November 2022
Pupils at Yaxley Infant School are happy. They enjoy learning about the world around them. Staff encourage pupils to be independent, curious learners. This prepares pupils well for the next stage of their education. From the moment pupils start at the school, they are taught to be respectful and listen to others. As a result, pupils' kind and caring behaviours follow them through the school, creating, in the words of several parents, 'a family feel'. Through staff's calm and positive relationships, pupils' behaviour is consistently good. Pupils experience a range of innovative support to keep them focused, such as daily massage sessions. Pupils feel safe and bullying rarely ever happens. Pupils have strong, trusting relationships with staff. Support is available if pupils find school life tricky, for example attending the 'happy sad club'. Consequently, pupils are confident to talk to adults in school if they have any worries. Most pupils attend at least one of the clubs on offer. These include gymnastics, dance and football. The clubs enhance the curriculum to support the wider development of pupils. Other opportunities, such as being on the school council and raising money for charity, enable pupils to understand how their actions affect others.
What the school should improve
- A small number of pupils are not having enough regular opportunities to practise the sounds and words they need to learn to improve the fluency of their reading. This means that these pupils are not catching up quickly enough. Leaders must ensure this becomes a focus of their monitoring. They need to make sure that staff have a clearer understanding of the expectations and actions required to ensure those readers who struggle to read are supported effectively to become fluent and confident readers.
- The needs of some pupils with SEND are not always correctly identified. Therefore, targets set are not specific enough to enable these pupils to achieve as well as they should. Leaders must ensure the current targets are more precise and closely linked to pupils' needs. Leaders also need to ensure staff have the right training to be able to review and monitor this support to ensure pupils achieve well from their starting points.
Pupil numbers and mix
143 pupils on roll, with places for 180
Schools near Yaxley Infant School
| School | Distance | Ofsted | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| William de Yaxley Church of England Academy | 0.2 miles | Ofsted: Good | 40% met the expected standard |
| Fourfields Community Primary School | 0.5 miles | Ofsted: Good | 65% met the expected standard |
| St John Henry Newman Catholic VA Primary School | 1 mile | Ofsted judgements: Outstanding | 67% met the expected standard |
| Great Haddon Primary School | 1 mile | No Ofsted inspection | Not published |
| Hampton Vale Primary Academy | 2 miles | Ofsted: Good | 73% met the expected standard |
School details
- School type
- Community school
- Sector
- Local authority maintained
- Age range
- 5 to 7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Nursery classes
- No
- Headteacher
- Mrs Laura Wales
- Phone
- 01733240918
- Address
- Main Street, Yaxley, Peterborough, PE7 3LU
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire
- URN
- 110713
School details from Get Information about Schools, 17 September 2026. Ofsted outcomes published to 31 August 2026. Pupil mix from the school census, 2025/26.