The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You, along with your trustees and dedicated staff team, are determined to provide the best possible opportunities for all pupils, regardless of background or starting point. The school’s ethos of ‘success, no matter what!’, alongside the school’s nine core values, drives your decisions and processes. You lead the school with passion and the desire to ensure that all pupils achieve the best they can. Since your appointment, you have engaged with the school community to share your vision of how to improve standards even further. You and your senior team have focused on improving teaching, using assessment information to plan opportunities to improve pupils’ progress, and on broadening the range of curricular and extra-curricular activities for pupils. For instance, pupils have enjoyed many successes which include winning a national ‘The nutcracker’ ballet competition and also a local tag rugby tournament. Leaders’ approach to improvement is well considered and strategic. Improvement plans are precise and regularly reviewed to ensure that all remain focused on the key priorities. Leaders’ actions are bringing about sustained improvements to all aspects of the school. The school is a calm, welcoming and nurturing environment. Pupils’ behaviour is very good, and pupils are polite both to staff and to each other. Pupils are keen to take on responsibilities around the school and older pupils are excellent role models for others. Pupils are very proud of their work. It is presented well across the whole curriculum with exemplary handwriting. These presentation skills are developed across the school, including in the early years foundation stage. Parents and carers overwhelmingly support the work of the school. Many enthused about the way that staff enable pupils not only to achieve well academically, but also socially and emotionally. One said: ‘Each and every member of staff is committed to providing the very best for our children and they should be very proud of the results and happiness that they produce.’ This was representative of almost all of the parents who expressed their views on Parent View. Attainment in reading, writing and mathematics was above national figures for all key stages in 2017 and 2018. You have identified that while attainment was very good, the progress of some groups of pupils was not as strong as you would have liked. You have successfully focused on improving the progress of all pupils by incorporating the development of basic skills within all aspects of your improvement plan. School leaders have ensured that the areas for improvement raised in the previous inspection report have been addressed successfully. Your high expectations are shared by all and consistently applied across the school. This ensures that all staff are clear about what they need to do to improve standards. Staff development includes opportunities to share outstanding practice both within the school and within a local consortium of schools. Members of the board of trustees also form the governing body. They demonstrate a very genuine and deep-seated commitment to the pupils. Their ambition to provide the pupils with a rich educational experience and a caring and welcoming environment is realised in the school’s curriculum and in the relationships between the staff and the pupils. However, the board of trustees is not as effective as it needs to be in robustly holding senior leaders to account. This is because some trustees hold many roles both within school and on the board, as well as being members of the trust. This structure weakens accountability. Safeguarding is effective. Safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose. The school undertook two recent external safeguarding audits. Trustees have been proactive in responding to any action points raised in these reviews, particularly with regard to issues arising from the shared use of the site with an external nursery provider. As a result, fencing and electronic gates have now been installed and you have carried out adequate checks to ensure that entry and exit through these gates is strictly controlled. Policies are of good quality and regularly updated. Staff and trustee training is up to date. You and the deputy designated safeguarding lead work well together, with established systems of communication ensuring that all information is effectively shared and rigorously recorded. Leaders involve external agencies when necessary and follow up concerns quickly.