The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the previous inspection. Although you only took on the role of headteacher in September 2017, you knew the school very well from your previous leadership role as assistant headteacher at the school. This has contributed to the continuation of the school’s good provision. You are ably supported by your assistant headteacher, who was a middle leader at the school prior to her appointment in September 2017. Along with these changes in leadership, the school joined the Diamond Learning Partnership Trust in September 2017. The trust has been effective in supporting and challenging you and your staff. For example, the trust’s challenge partner makes regular visits to the school to review the success of leaders’ actions and identify the school’s next priorities. You ensure that your staff make full use of training opportunities with other schools within the trust to develop their skills, further improve the quality of teaching and, consequently, enhance pupils’ learning experiences. You and your assistant headteacher work well together. You have different skills, and these complement each other well. You share the same motivation to continually move the school forward. Your shared expectations are that every child at Leverington Primary Academy will learn well and succeed. You have taken considerable action to address this aim and ensure that staff are working towards the same vision. You are resilient and uncompromising in holding teachers accountable for pupils’ achievement. For example, you have introduced a revised appraisal system and have regular meetings with each teacher to discuss the progress that the pupils in their class are making. Teaching assistants also have professional development meetings to discuss the training opportunities they need to carry out their roles effectively. The vast majority of staff realise the benefit of this approach in raising pupils’ achievement. This is reflected in the views of the 16 staff who responded to Ofsted’s questionnaire. Almost all of them agree that the school is led and managed well. Staff stated that they enjoy working at the school and feel well supported to achieve the best for the pupils in their care. Pupils behave very well at Leverington Primary Academy, which they describe as a ‘welcoming school’. They are polite, friendly and good mannered. Children get off to a good start in the early years provision and, throughout their time at school, pupils appreciate their teachers and teaching assistants who make sure that they ‘learn different subjects in a fun way’. Older pupils enjoy the extra responsibilities they are given, for example, reading and playing with the younger pupils and organising different school events. In this way, pupils successfully uphold the school’s motto, ‘Caring, sharing, thinking, learning.’ The majority of parents and carers are pleased with the school. Many who provided responses to Ofsted’s online questionnaire, Parent View, spoke about the hardworking staff and the good progress their children make. One parent’s comment was typical of many: ‘All staff are excellent, friendly, professional and approachable.’ Another parent said: ‘The communication from the school is wonderful: we always know what our child has been doing every week. Staff are always available and, more importantly, willing to make time and talk about any concerns we may have.’ An area for improvement highlighted in the previous inspection was to ensure that pupils make strong progress in mathematics and that more pupils reach the higher standards. You have attended to this area by providing training for staff and strengthening the mathematics curriculum. Leaders have ensured that staff have higher expectations of what pupils should achieve, and there is now a more consistent teaching approach in place across the school. Pupils are encouraged to develop their reasoning and problem-solving skills in all key stages. This is beginning to support pupils to access the higher standards. However, you have identified that the newly introduced approaches need to be firmly in place across the school to ensure that more pupils reach the higher standards that they should. Safeguarding is effective. In your role as school’s designated safeguarding leads, you and your assistant headteacher have ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose, and there is a strong safeguarding culture at the school. Staff recognise and embrace their responsibilities to ensure the safety and wellbeing of pupils. They have received up-to-date training. You involve external agencies as appropriate and are tenacious in following up referrals. Records are detailed and of high quality. All required checks take place when new staff are appointed.