The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You have worked very effectively to establish and maintain a culture at the school where cooperation and openness, high expectations and high-quality learning are practised and celebrated. Your school is characterised by the happiness and eagerness with which pupils and staff engage with each other and their learning. You know your community, your staff and your pupils very well and you use this knowledge to drive continued improvement. Pupils enjoy school. They thrive on the challenging teaching and care that they receive. The ‘formal’ curriculum is supported by a very wide range of extracurricular activities, including music, which many pupils take up. For example, I attended a lunchtime rehearsal of your school orchestra. A large group of pupils were playing a wide range of instruments in jazz arrangements of popular tunes. It is the first time during any inspection I have heard a group of pupils shouting, appropriately and in time, ‘Tequila!’ Your previous inspection in March 2012 identified the need to develop further the roles of leadership across the school. This particularly related to the way leaders monitored the impact of the work of their areas of responsibility. You and your governors have addressed this very successfully. You and your leaders monitor the work of the school very expertly. Your team of leaders are knowledgeable and skilled in the way they undertake their work. You use your monitoring to refocus and successfully target teaching and other activities to ensure that pupils make the progress that they should. Your governors’ work in overseeing and checking this is exemplary. You have dealt very adeptly with some challenging staffing issues. Carefully and effectively supported by your team and by governors, you have put in place strategies that have ensured that any disruption to pupils’ learning is minimised. You are ambitious for your school and set yourself the highest of standards. You are determined to improve further the quality of teaching across the school and you know that there is still more to be done. Safeguarding is effective. The leadership team has ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose and records are detailed and of high quality. You have created and maintain a strong and pervasive culture of safeguarding at the school. You, all the staff at the school and the governing body take your safeguarding responsibilities very seriously. You ensure that there is regular and effective training for all staff and governors to ensure that they are up to date in their knowledge and understanding of safeguarding. You, as the designated safeguarding lead, have strong and effective links with the relevant outside agencies. You record your dealings with these agencies in a detailed and meticulous manner. You follow safeguarding issues through effectively and engage with the local authority promptly. Inspection findings I looked at the effectiveness of the early years provision as one of the lines of enquiry for this inspection to see whether children got off to a flying start at school. Children settle quickly into the Nursery and the Reception class because of the careful transition arrangements put in place by the early years leader and her team. Staff in the early years have a clear understanding of the range of children’s needs as they enter the school. This means that staff already know a lot about the children before they arrive. As a result, plans for each child’s learning are well developed. In addition, the school runs regular information events for parents before and after their children enter the school. Children are happy, safe and soon grow to understand and welcome the routines established by the school. The environment is bright and engaging both inside and out. Children play and learn well together, developing their skills as enquiring and collaborative learners. The early years leader deploys her staff carefully. Children’s progress is monitored and recorded carefully and used to focus next steps in learning. Parents are very complimentary about the regularity and depth of the information they receive about their children’s progress. Nursery nurses and teaching assistants are skilled and well trained. They play a key role in monitoring children’s progress and welfare.