The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. Since this inspection, the school has become a member of the Excalibur Multi-Academy Trust. You know the school well and, together with your leadership team, are taking effective action on the areas for improvement identified at the previous inspection. Governors challenge and support you effectively. You are supported well by expertise from the trust. You provide strong leadership and commitment to improving outcomes for pupils. You were tenacious in your response to the dip in standards at the end of 2017. The quality of your leadership is recognised by governors and by the trust. As a result, you were deployed to support another school within the trust. This experience allowed other school leaders to take on more responsibility and develop their leadership skills. Pupils are proud of their school. They appreciate the support that teachers give them to help them learn. Pupils are made to feel welcome, and those who arrive from other schools are helped to settle quickly. Parents and carers are generally positive about the quality of education that their children receive. Parents commented on the happy nature of the school and how eager their children are to learn as result of the good provision you and your team provide. Safeguarding is effective. School leaders, including governors, place safeguarding as the highest priority for the school. A strong culture of safety and security pervades the school as a result. Governors and leaders check the school’s work to keep children safe regularly. All staff understand the need to protect pupils from risk and know pupils extremely well. Leaders and governors ensure that all the required checks and training are in place to support all staff and volunteers. A rigorous system of induction enhances staff and volunteers’ understanding of how to keep children safe in school. Records are detailed and well maintained. Pupils talk confidently about how the school keeps them safe. They understand that routine procedures such as fire drills help keep them safe. They explain how staff listen and help solve problems when they occur. Pupils attend school regularly. The vast majority of parents who responded to the Parent View survey agreed that the school looks after pupils well and responds effectively to incidents of bullying. Inspection findings School leaders have worked hard to ensure that the curriculum offered throughout the school for all pupils is exciting and engaging. A range of exciting and stimulating experiences are planned for pupils and you ensure that these go beyond mathematics and English. For example, you ensure that every child in key stage 2 learns a musical instrument. You also ensure that pupils experience a wide range of visits, for example the recent trip to the Young Voices event at the O2 arena. The recent building project has ensured that the youngest children now have a larger classroom space in early years and key stage 1. This has enhanced the learning environment. The school has future plans to review the use of the outside area to further support curriculum development. The school regularly reviews its curriculum to map out the knowledge and skills that every pupil should learn. This enables teachers to closely match activities to pupils’ needs. There is a strong expectation that skills learned will be used and applied across all aspects of the curriculum, for example by using knowledge on how to construct a newspaper report in history. Teachers demonstrate good subject knowledge. This enables them to adapt teaching to meet pupils’ needs swiftly. For example, in key stage 2 mathematics, teachers model effective problem-solving activities. This allows pupils to correct their work and increases their confidence to move on to try other challenges. The school’s use of additional funding to provide specific intervention for vulnerable pupils is helping these pupils to catch up with their peers. Pupils commented that this extra support helps them to move forward with their learning. One pupil said how proud she was at the progress she has made in her writing because she could now write more and at a higher quality.