This pupil heat map shows where pupils currently attending the school live.
The concentration of pupils shows likelihood of admission based on distance criteria
Source:All attending pupilsNational School Census Data, ONS
This School Guide heat map has been plotted using official pupil data taken from the last School Census collected by the Department for Education. It is a visualisation of where pupils lived at the time of the annual School Census.
Our heat maps use groups of postcodes, not individual postcodes, and have naturally soft edges. All pupils are included in the mapping (i.e. children with siblings already at the school, high priority pupils and selective and/or religious admissions) but we may have removed statistical ‘outliers’ with more remote postcodes that do not reflect majority admissions.
For some schools, the heat map may be a useful indicator of the catchment area but our heat maps are not the same as catchment area maps. Catchment area maps, published by the school or local authority, are based on geographical admissions criteria and show actual cut-off distances and pre-defined catchment areas for a single admission year.
This information is provided as a guide only.
The criteria in which schools use to allocate places in the event that they are oversubscribed can and do vary between schools and over time.
These criteria can include distance from the school and sometimes specific catchment areas but can also include, amongst others,
priority for siblings, children of a particular faith or specific feeder schools. Living in an area where children have previously
attended a school does not guarantee admission to the school in future years. Always check with the school’s
own admission authority for the current admission arrangements.
3 steps to help parents gather catchment information for a school:
Look at our school catchment area guide for more information on heat maps. They give a useful indicator of the general areas that admit pupils to the school. This visualisation is based on all attending pupils present at the time of the annual School Census.
Use the link to the Local Authority Contact (above) to find catchment area information based on a single admission year. This is very important if you are considering applying to a school.
On each school page, use the link to visit the school website and find information on individual school admissions criteria. Geographical criteria are only applied after pupils have been admitted on higher priority criteria such as Looked After Children, SEN, siblings, etc.
The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. Following the recent retirement of the previous headteacher, you have successfully supported the school through a period of uncertainty and instability. You have managed many staff absences effectively to ensure that there is minimal impact on the quality of teaching in school. You have been well assisted by the dedicated acting deputy headteacher, whose talents complement your own. Working alongside a supportive governing body, your skilful leadership has brought about improvements to teaching and learning. Your self-evaluation processes are detailed. You, together with the acting deputy headteacher, have an accurate view of the school’s overall effectiveness. Your new development plans are sharply focused. Priorities for improvement are well chosen and clear. As a result of your hard work and conscientious leadership, standards in the school show improvement and morale is high among staff and pupils. You have managed, and continue to manage, significant changes to leadership and staffing. You do so sensitively and with a calm manner. You have supported leaders to take full responsibility for their subjects. They have embraced the challenge and are working with enthusiasm to improve provision. You, together with the acting deputy headteacher, have created an ethos of continuous development among your staff. In order to improve pupils’ outcomes in reading, writing and mathematics further, you have already started to focus on these areas to ensure that pupils are set appropriately challenging work. You have invested in high-quality training to support staff to improve and share their practice. As a result, the quality of teaching across the school is securely good. Teaching is characterised by strong and purposeful relationships. Teachers’ planning is well structured, and the use of high-quality assessments has enabled pupils’ needs to be more readily met. As a result, pupils’ progress and attainment across the school are improving. You are committed to ensuring that all pupils achieve their very best. Pupils’ behaviour and attitudes to learning are impeccable. They treat each other, staff and visitors with the utmost care and respect. They behave exceptionally well in class and around the school during break and lunchtime. Pupils are proud of their achievements and enjoy talking about their work. One pupil said, ‘School is a happy place; it is exciting and fun.’ Pupils support each other with their learning and in their play. You, fully supported by your whole staff team, encourage strong values in pupils, such as respect, tolerance and the importance of caring about each other. This prepares pupils exceptionally well for the future. You, together with the acting deputy headteacher, have refined many strategies to encourage and celebrate pupils’ regular and punctual attendance. The ‘Don’t be off’ shop, with its many prizes, has already supported better attendance and punctuality. Staff, parents, pupils and governors are supportive of you and the changes you have made. Parents are overwhelmingly positive. They appreciate that you are always available to talk with them. They value the care and support you and your team provide. Relationships are a significant strength within the school. Safeguarding is effective. The leadership team has ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose. For example, comprehensive checks are made so that adults working in the school are safe to do so. Staff and governor safeguarding training is up to date. An analysis of your records shows that you are swift to access support and guidance from other agencies to help you in your role as designated safeguarding lead. You have recently refined your recording systems further, moving onto an electronic system, so that related documents can be more easily accessed. All staff are vigilant and quick to raise any issues or concerns. As a result, the school fosters a safe and caring environment. The school is a vibrant and happy place to learn. The curriculum supports pupils well in maintaining their own safety. Pupils are knowledgeable about keeping safe online and how to stay safe outside of school. They are able to discuss issues such as road safety and ‘stranger danger’ confidently. Pupils who spoke to me told me that there were no unsafe places in school. They said that bullying and poor behaviour are rare. They are confident that if they ever have a problem, a member of staff will quickly help them to deal with it. Pupils have full trust in their teachers and teaching assistants who look after them. Inspection findings An area that I explored during the inspection was how leaders’ actions were improving and securing more consistent outcomes for pupils. Over time, the proportions of pupils who reach the expected standards and the higher standards in reading, writing and mathematics have fluctuated and have often been lower than the national average. Strong teaching throughout school, work in pupils’ books and current pupils’ assessment information indicate that pupils are now making better progress. A challenge for the school will be to sustain these recent marked improvements. Your work to improve reading rapidly across the school is paying dividends. Since last September, new approaches to the teaching of reading have been put in place. These are giving pupils more opportunities to develop their retrieval, inference and deduction skills. Pupils are increasingly confident in dealing with, and using vocabulary across a wide range of subjects. While listening to pupils read, I was impressed by their developing fluency and their systematic use of phonic skills to attempt words that they find tricky. All of this is contributing to pupils’ improved levels of attainment in reading. The vast majority of pupils have a secure understanding of phonics due to effective teaching. Over time, the school has worked successfully on the areas of concern identified in the previous inspection, to develop teachers’ questioning skills and raise their expectations. All staff ask probing questions effectively to encourage children to think deeply about their learning. You have worked well with staff to increase their expectations and they are now beginning to provide greater challenge to pupils. However, the most able pupils still require further challenge. Next, I wanted to establish what leaders were doing to ensure that children in the early years have every opportunity to achieve a good level of development by the end of Reception. A large proportion of children enter the early years with starting points below those typical for their age. However, you and your early years leader do not see this as a barrier. Together, you are determined to ensure that each child makes good progress. The early years leader has a strong understanding of how young children learn. She accurately assesses children’s abilities when they start school. Her strong direction, to a relatively new team, has created a vibrant, language-rich environment in which children flourish. Any gaps in children’s knowledge and skills that exist are quickly identified and acted upon. As a result, the proportion of children, including disadvantaged children, reaching a good level of development at the end of Reception is improving, and in 2018 this was in line with the national average. Another focus for this inspection was to review the impact of the additional spending for disadvantaged pupils and for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Leaders conduct regular progress meetings to review the progress of every pupil. Any pupil showing signs of falling behind in their learning is quickly identified and a raft of interventions or additional support is then put in place. Because assessment systems have not, until recently, been sufficiently reliable, governors have struggled to hold leaders to account regarding the effective use of the pupil premium grant. This has been because they found it hard to judge how much progress had been made during support programmes. Work in disadvantaged pupils’ books, during the inspection, particularly in writing and mathematics, demonstrates that pupils’ achievement is strongly improving.
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