The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You, your deputy headteacher and the governing body continue to ensure that pupils achieve well at Moulton School. Under your leadership, your staff have high expectations of every pupil. They strive to nurture pupils and foster a love of learning in each of them. You are determined that as a learning community you will ‘aim high and together you will succeed’. Without doubt, pupils enjoy being at the school and they enjoy learning. The overwhelming majority of parents think that the school provides a very good standard of education. To sustain this good standard of education, you, alongside the governing body, have carefully and expertly navigated the school through a particularly turbulent period of time. This is because a number of key staff have left the school. You have, however, managed this difficult situation effectively. Indeed, you have now stabilised the school’s staffing by recruiting new high-quality teachers and middle leaders. During this time, the standards that the pupils achieve have continued to be good. Now that you have stabilised the situation, you acknowledge that your new middle leadership team requires ongoing development. This is to ensure that they drive further improvements to ensure that pupils excel in their learning. You know your school very well. You have an accurate view of the strengths and areas for improvement across the school. In addition to stabilising the school’s staffing, you have also recognised that your pupils needed high-quality stimuli to help them to succeed in the new national tests. As part of the improvement journey, you have ensured that pupils have access to materials that will inspire them. For example, all across the school there are displays of the beautiful artwork that your pupils have created. Pupils have studied a range of artists from William Morris to Piet Mondrian. You also use a range of external visits to spark pupils’ imagination; for example, pupils go on a trip to Liverpool, before undertaking a project on cities. These projects help to inspire pupils, especially boys, in their learning. Another way you have energised pupils, especially boys, is through your work to improve the quality of pupils’ writing. Under your and your deputy headteacher’s direction, your staff have developed confidence and expertise in using novels and texts to inspire pupils to great effect. In each classroom, there are impressive illustrations of how well your pupils can write, for example through their second world war project books and the ‘matchbox project’. Around every corner there is a plethora of high-quality reading books in your text-rich school. These creative resources motivate pupils, especially boys, to make even better progress in both their reading and writing. Pupils recognise the work that your teachers do to engage them in their learning. Improvements since the last inspection have not been limited to reading and writing. In mathematics, pupils also make better progress because of an improvement in the quality of teaching. This is because of strong leadership in this area. Across the school, teachers are now much more confident in planning mathematical activities that develop pupils’ problem-solving and reasoning skills. This was a key area for improvement at the last inspection. From early years through to key stage 2, pupils are given a wide range of mathematical problems which require pupils to draw on their prior learning. As a result, by the end of key stage 2, pupils make good progress and achieve well in mathematics. However, as you acknowledge, even more pupils at the end of key stage 1 should achieve the higher standard. Since the previous inspection, you have also ensured that there has been a sharp focus on ensuring that teachers plan for the different abilities within their classes. This includes teachers’ use of challenging questions to extend different pupils’ thinking skills. Evidence gathered during the inspection shows that pupils receive work matched correctly to their ability and that over time pupils make good progress. You did, however, recognise that there are more opportunities to challenge the most able so that even more achieve the highest standard across their subjects. At your last inspection, another area for improvement was teachers’ use of challenging questions. You have ensured that this has been a priority. It continues to be so for some new staff who still require additional support to use their questions to allow pupils to think more deeply. Undeniably, Moulton School is a happy, vibrant and exciting place to learn. Pupils’ behaviour is excellent because they are encouraged to achieve. Equally, your work to ensure that your pupils are tolerant and respectful of one another is striking.