The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You and your governors have carefully and determinedly managed staffing changes so that the continued focus on improving outcomes has been maintained. A very strong sense of teamwork and collaboration exists because of your honest, trusting and open leadership. One member of staff summed this up by stating, ‘The school goes to great efforts to understand and accommodate the needs of parents and the community in which we live. This also contributes to an ethos which is welcoming and a pleasure to be a part of.’ Most importantly, pupils emulate these qualities in the way they conduct themselves, act towards each other and adults, and tackle their work. Pupils learn in a safe and caring environment where adults tailor activities to meet most pupils’ individual needs well. Because your school values and ethos are acted out by adults and pupils alike, all challenge injustice and learn or play together at ease with one another. Pupils demonstrate a strong ‘moral compass’ of right and wrong. Your strong pastoral focus is supporting pupils to overcome emotional and social barriers to learning. It is also providing rich experiences for developing the skills required to enable pupils to face any future challenges with confidence. Parents are supportive of your approach. At the previous inspection, you were asked to improve the quality of teaching by ensuring that work is well matched to the age and ability levels of different groups of pupils. You have been largely successful in this work. As a result, standards throughout the school have exceeded the national average and progress has been good. However, you correctly recognise that the challenge for the most able is still not always demanding enough and more pupils could reach higher levels if teachers raised their expectations. This is particularly the case in writing. Since the previous inspection, you have strengthened your teaching team and through robust monitoring, another area for improvement from the previous report, there is now no inadequate or weak teaching. However, you rightly identify, and have already started to develop, a range of strategies to ensure that all staff have the same high expectations. This is especially the case for improving pupils’ spelling, presentation and the feedback needed to improve writing in subjects other than English. You accept that although pupils write in a variety of styles, in subjects other than English, they need to show greater precision in their spelling, use of vocabulary and punctuation. During this inspection, I found North Duffield Primary School to be an industrious hive of learning. Pupils engage enthusiastically in their learning and are very proud of their school. Parents are overwhelmingly positive about the school and every parent who responded to Ofsted’s online questionnaire, Parent View, would recommend the school. One parent, typical of many, commented, ‘It is a very community-focused school and gives its students not only a superb start to their education but teaches them great lessons for life.’ Safeguarding is effective. You and your leadership team ensure that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose. Policies and practice keep abreast of recent legislation The procedures for keeping pupils safe are good. Good relationships with a wide range of external agencies are supporting pupils when they face particular challenges in their lives. Your team is assiduous in its work to ensure that pupils and families are well supported. Adequate checks are in place for staff and volunteers who work at the school. Your regular briefings to all staff are informative and timely. Consequently, staff are well aware of the risks children can face and know the signs to look out for, including from extremism. However, you agree that some of the practice could be tightened further. For example, although staff have all signed that they have received and read safeguarding documents, there is no further check to confirm that these have been understood. You recognise the need to communicate more clearly to parents and visitors about the named safeguarding personnel in school. You also know that parents and visitors need to be more aware of their own responsibilities in relation to safeguarding when they visit school. Pupils are well prepared to face the wide range of situations they may encounter in the future, including when using the internet. Pupils whom I spoke to are confident that there is an adult at school whom they can talk to if something worries them. They all feel safe at school.