The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education since the last inspection. You continue to lead the school effectively. There is a strong sense of teamwork, clear purpose and determination of staff and governors to make sure that every pupil achieves their best. You act decisively to address underachievement. This is demonstrated well by the action taken to improve outcomes in phonics after a dip in 2016. The employment of an additional teacher is helping all pupils, and particularly disadvantaged ones, to improve their skills and achievement in reading. As headteacher, you have the respect of governors, pupils, staff and parents who praise your dedication and determination to improve the school. The local authority draws on your expertise to support headteachers new in post. You have effectively tackled the areas for improvement identified at the previous inspection. Teaching is now consistently good across the school. Pupils and teachers told me that lessons are very rarely disrupted by poor behaviour. Your own evaluation of the quality of the school’s work is accurate. You have correctly identified the need to increase the proportion of pupils achieving the expected standards across the board in reading, writing and mathematics at the end of Year 6. One reason for lower outcomes is that more pupils than average leave or join the school during the year. Much school time has had to be given to helping pupils to catch up on missed learning. You have taken decisive action to improve the lower outcomes in 2016. The next step for the school is to increase the proportion of pupils at the expected level in reading, writing and mathematics across the school. The school also still needs to tackle low attendance of disadvantaged pupils. Your teaching team is strong. In the Ofsted questionnaire, and in conversations with teachers, many staff praised the quality of professional development that they receive and also the strong mutual support of other teachers. Many stated that they feel privileged and proud to work at St Elphin’s. You provide a rich curriculum which excites and enthuses pupils, and leads to strong personal and social development. Your pupils have many opportunities to develop leadership skills – for example, as members of the sports council, school council or as ‘eco-warriors’. Your pupils are generous in their support of others, for example through links with a school in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone. Your ‘young interpreters’ scheme means that pupils develop confidence in speaking languages such as Bulgarian, Portuguese, Spanish, Latvian, Polish, Hindi and many more. This ensures that pupils new to the school can be greeted in their own language and instantly feel welcome. Safeguarding is effective. You, your staff and governors share a commitment to keeping pupils safe. Your arrangements for safeguarding are meticulous and highly effective. You work successfully with other agencies to minimise the possibility of harm to any pupil. Staff told me that they receive regular and high-quality safeguarding training to keep them well informed. They feel that they know how to act in a range of different circumstances. You carefully evaluate the risks involved when pupils take part in different activities. You are assiduous in ensuring that staff recruitment is conducted safely. Pupils were very confident that they are well looked after and can share any worries they might have with an adult. They described their school as a happy and safe place. They were especially appreciative of your well-being and attendance mentor and your safeguarding coordinator. They said that these staff are always available to listen and give good advice. Pupils told me confidently that they understand how to keep themselves safe in different situations. I was especially impressed by their awareness of the dangers to avoid when using the internet and social media. Your pupils have benefited from their research into how to keep safe when using the internet and have developed a child-friendly version of ‘flag it, zip it, block it’ from ‘child alert’. Leaders and governors ensure that arrangements are fit for purpose and that records are detailed and of good quality. Weekly safeguarding meetings ensure that staff are constantly vigilant and alert to any concerns. Your safeguarding meetings are often observed by the chair of the governing body.