The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You have successfully steered the school through a significant increase in the number of pupils attending. Your clear, calm and determined leadership ensured that the school’s values and positive atmosphere were maintained throughout this process. Apart from three senior leaders, the entire teaching team has changed since the previous inspection. You deserve much of the credit for ensuring that the school continues to serve its community so effectively. You have successfully created a culture in which all pupils are welcomed, cared for and nurtured, both academically and in their personal development. You rightly identify areas that need strengthening, as well as where there is strong practice, such as in early years. Many pupils join and leave the school during the school year. The inward and outward mobility of pupils is very high, especially of pupils who speak English as an additional language. However, you and your leaders know the school, your pupils and their families very well. This knowledge has helped in your successful work to support all pupils. Your commitment to fully developing pupils so that they make a positive contribution to their community is shared by your staff team. Consequently, there is a strong team spirit within the staff body. You and your leaders have created an environment in which pupils treasure the values of honesty, happiness and respect. Pupils are rightly proud of their contribution to the school’s caring ethos. Parents value the ethos of the school, which they describe as developing their children’s love of learning and, as I was told, ‘they make children realise what is going on in the world’. The school successfully encourages pupils to hold positive attitudes to life, to learning and towards other people. The school, justifiably, enjoys a very high level of confidence among the parents, who praise the dedication of the teachers and teaching assistants, for example in providing a wide range of activities for pupils, especially after-school clubs. The pupils act as articulate and engaging ‘ambassadors’ for the school. They are polite and welcoming, and eager to show off work of which they are especially proud. In class, pupils are interested and motivated to learn. Their good behaviour continues around school and on the playground. The curriculum helps to develop the personal qualities that children need in order to be good citizens and gives them a sense of their own nationality and culture, while at the same time developing respect for the nationalities and cultures of others. The areas for improvement identified at the last inspection have been tackled successfully. Leaders set about improving the quality and consistency of teaching and learning across the school, and evidence shows that their work has had the desired impact of raising standards in English and mathematics. At the last inspection, the school had not yet developed the outside learning areas for the early years foundation stage. However, these have been transformed so that they are used more effectively to develop all areas of children’s learning and, in particular, to extend their physical development. Staff are appreciative of the opportunities that they have had to develop their practice. Governors reflect the ethos and values well, including the diversity represented in the school. The local authority recognises the good quality of teaching and leadership in the school. They regularly call on a number of the school’s teachers to support other schools by leading training sessions and meetings. While much has been achieved since the last inspection, there is a determination, shared by all of the staff, to press ahead and make the school the very best that it possibly can be. To this end, you make effective use of resources, including pupil premium funding, to ensure that the differences in progress between disadvantaged pupils and their peers nationally continue to narrow. You appreciate that outcomes for pupils, particularly in mathematics, are not yet as strong as they could be. Currently, not enough pupils reach the highest levels of attainment in writing and mathematics by the time they leave Year 6, although evidence shows that this is rapidly improving this year.