The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. It was clear in our discussions that you and other leaders, including governors, have high expectations of pupils and are ambitious for the school to be the best that it can be. Since the previous inspection, leaders have focused well on continuing to raise the achievement of pupils. This work has had particularly positive impact on improving the progress and attainment of the most able pupils in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of key stage 2. In addition, you and your staff have worked successfully to improve the standard of writing. Displays around the school exemplify the high quality of writing that pupils produce. Pupils’ English books in Years 5 and 6 in particular show strong development of written work. Children in early years are also making very good progress in developing their writing skills. The school now makes better use of assessment information to check how well pupils are working. Class teachers and leaders know which pupils need additional support to enable them to achieve well. The information on pupils’ progress and standards of attainment is used effectively to identify what the school needs to improve. For example, there has been a focus on raising the number of children in early years and pupils in key stage 1 who achieve the higher standard. Under your leadership, the school has worked hard and effectively to improve its links with parents so that they have a better understanding of their children’s progress. This was an issue at the time of the previous inspection. Parents are very complimentary about the school and how it supports their children and nurtures their education. Pupils are very positive about school and enjoy all it has to offer. They thrive in the warm, positive and caring ethos that you and your staff have created. All parents who responded to the Ofsted questionnaire, and those I spoke to at the start of the school day, said how happy their children are to come to school. This is reflected in pupils’ high levels of attendance. You ensure, in the very few cases where pupils’ attendance is below average, that you work to improve attendance on an individual basis. Parents and pupils are pleased with the wide range of extra-curricular activities on offer. Pupils are very keen to learn and to do well. They pay attention in lessons and work willingly and enthusiastically with one another. In discussion, they are articulate, thoughtful and respectful. Pupils’ conduct around the school is of a high standard. Since the previous inspection, you have led the school well through changes in the national curriculum. You have focused well on developing pupils’ depth of understanding across the full range of subjects they are studying. Pupils now have more opportunities to explain their reasoning and how they have arrived at particular conclusions. This was an area for improvement at the time of the previous inspection. However, there is more work to do to ensure that pupils’ reasoning is consistently accurate or shows a wide enough understanding of the subject matter, especially in science. While the most able pupils have performed very well in the tests at the end of key stage 2 over the last two years, in reading and mathematics especially, middle-ability pupils did not do as well last year as the year before in reading and mathematics. Safeguarding is effective. The school takes good care of pupils. The leadership team has ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose and records are detailed and of high quality. Almost all parents responding to the Ofsted questionnaire, and all those I spoke to at the start of the school day, agreed that the school keeps pupils safe. Staff know and understand the range of safeguarding issues they need to guard against and they are vigilant. Teaching staff help pupils to learn about how to keep safe, including when using the internet.