Leaders and governors have maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You have successfully created an inclusive and ambitious culture. Your determination to provide the best for all pupils and their families is shared by staff and governors. Pupils are confident and self-assured. They told me they enjoy school because of the ‘fun learning’ and because, ‘everyone is nice here’. Pupils were keen to show me their work and explain the good progress they have made. The well-planned curriculum and the many extra-curricular activities, including residential trips, effectively support their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Pupils are enthusiastic about the responsibilities they can apply for, including the role of play leader and member of the school council. They are proud of the awards they have won, especially the certificates, medals and trophies for attendance, good effort or thinking of others. The pastoral provision is highly effective. Pupils and parents value the parent support adviser and emotional literacy support assistants, many commenting on the high-quality support they have received. A pupil told me that adults at the school, ‘always make time to listen’ and help to sort out any worries. Your high expectations for behaviour have successfully created a positive and purposeful atmosphere around the school. When pupils arrive in Year 3 they are well supported to develop their behaviour for learning. I saw enthusiastic and wellbehaved learners in every classroom and around the school who were rightly proud of their work and the good progress they are making. You have maintained the strengths of the school identified in the previous inspection, although you are working to further improve pupils’ outcomes in reading, especially those of disadvantaged pupils. You made good use of the local authority’s specialist support and successfully addressed the recommendations for improvement. For example, in 2016 proportionally more Year 6 pupils attained at least the expected level in mathematics than pupils did nationally. You have also created effective systems so that teachers plan lessons jointly and support each other. This has helped to further raise the quality of teaching across the school. You have a good knowledge of the school and its priorities. The high-quality support from the local authority has effectively helped you refine your process for tracking pupils’ progress. You and your team carefully adapt your actions based on this information. You are rightly working to reduce the barriers to learning experienced by many of your disadvantaged pupils so that more can achieve the higher standards. In the past year governors and leaders have taken on extra responsibility and the school is now part of a federation. School leaders and governors have met these extra demands successfully. You have increased the leadership capacity of the school through ongoing training and support. The governing body has made good use of the move to a federation to carefully match governors’ skills to the needs of the school. Governors challenge school leaders and scrutinise spending decisions. However, they recognise they will be able to undertake these responsibilities more effectively if the written evaluations provided by leaders more closely measure the impact of leaders’ work against pupils’ progress. Safeguarding is effective. School leaders and governors have ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose, and records are detailed and of a high quality. Leaders make sure that, when recruiting staff, all appropriate checks are completed. You are passionate about keeping pupils safe. You ensure that all adults are trained so they fully understand their responsibilities and how to carry them out effectively. Your tenacity when tracking the actions and support provided for pupils means that their needs are met. Your ongoing work with external safeguarding agencies means that you make effective use of them when appropriate. Pupils like school and say they feel safe. They like the way there is always an adult to talk to if needed. They told me there is hardly any bullying, but if there is teachers sort it out quickly and effectively. Parents are also very happy with the way staff are accessible and provide practical support for any concern.