Pupils like being with children of different ages. They care for one another well. Parents and carers, and pupils said the school is like a family. A typical comment was: ‘The staff go above and beyond and have created a place of warmth, happiness, safety and learning.’ Pupils enjoy school. Staff manage behaviour in a consistent and positive manner. As a result, the school is calm, and pupils behave well. Bullying is rare but, when it happens, staff deal with it immediately. Things are getting better at Talbot First School. Standards in reading and mathematics have risen. However, changes to the curriculum in other subjects are too recent to have had an impact on what pupils have learned and remembered. Leaders are ambitious about what pupils should achieve. Pupils talk enthusiastically about the activities they do. For example, they enjoy learning to play the ukulele, going to forest school and ‘chatting’ to the school dog. Despite the range of experiences offered to pupils, teachers could do even more to develop pupils’ understanding of different faiths and cultures.