The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You have effected improvements in many aspects. You are ambitious for the school and are leading the school with energy and vision. Together with a hard-working leadership team, you have the full support and confidence of staff, governors and pupils. You know your school well and you are determined to provide the best education possible for every pupil. The school’s Christian values of ‘friendship, forgiveness, aspiration and respect’ are woven through all aspects of the school’s work. You have promoted a calm, warm and welcoming atmosphere in which pupils are happy, ready to learn and achieve well. Pupils have highly positive attitudes to their learning and are immensely proud to belong to the school. One pupil told me, ‘Our school is the best place in the world.’ Parents and carers are fully supportive of the school and value the work of you and your team. As one parent commented to me, ‘This is a fabulous school.’ Almost every parent who shared their view using the online survey, Parent View, would recommend the school to others. Governors are committed to the continued success of the school. They bring a range of expertise to their roles and regularly visit the school and offer a healthy balance of challenge and support to you and your team. Teachers share your high aspirations for pupils’ achievement. They are enthused about teaching and want the best for all pupils. Teachers work constructively with each other and with colleagues in other schools locally to develop their practice. All members of staff who completed Parent View said that they are proud to work in the school. At the time of the last inspection, you were asked to ensure that all pupils have a clear understanding about what they need to do next to improve their work. Pupils enthusiastically told me about their ‘targets’ and explained how teachers give them clear guidance about how to improve their work in every lesson. You were also asked to ensure that work set sufficiently challenges the most able pupils. Through looking at pupils’ books, it is clear that the most able pupils are now challenged effectively. Your assessment information shows that these pupils are now making stronger progress and a greater proportion is reaching the higher standards at the end of early years, key stage 1 and by the end of Year 5. Inspectors also asked you to ensure that all leaders keep a close check on their areas of responsibility and take actions to further accelerate pupils’ progress. You have strengthened your leadership team through the appointment of a highly skilled assistant headteacher and an early years leader. This has enabled you to have a sharper focus on improving the quality of teaching, learning and assessment. You have increased the rigour of your checks to ensure that the quality of teaching is consistently strong and that all pupils are making at least good progress in all areas of school. You ensure that the progress of all pupils is closely tracked, and you quickly identify groups and individuals who are falling behind, working with teachers to plan how to address gaps in pupils’ learning. Children get off to a very strong start in the early years as a result of well-planned activities and teachers’ high expectations. They achieve well and settle quickly into school life. Over time, pupils make good, and sometimes better, progress and, by the end of Year 5, they achieve standards which are above the national average in reading, writing and mathematics. You have rightly identified that the progress made by some middle-attaining pupils across key stage 1 could be stronger in reading and mathematics and you have started to take action to address this. Safeguarding is effective. The leadership team has ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose. There is a strong culture of safeguarding in the school. Checks on the suitability of all those who work or volunteer in the school are carried out rigorously. Staff and governors have undertaken timely training in keeping pupils safe. The caring relationships that have been established between staff and pupils mean that pupils feel safe. A group of Year 5 pupils have been trained as ‘Befrienders’ and are available in the playground to talk with any pupils who have a problem. Pupils have confidence that these pupils and all adults in school will help them if they have a problem and they know that it will be dealt with quickly. Pupils told me that bullying very rarely happens in school. They are confident that an adult would deal with it for them, swiftly and successfully, if incidents did occur.