The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You provide calm and purposeful leadership that allows staff around you to develop their skills well. You have ensured the character and ethos of this small village school has been maintained at the same time as making changes to senior and middle leadership roles. Pupils make good progress across the curriculum and attain well at the end of key stage 2. They are confident, articulate and well prepared to move on to secondary school when they finish Year 6. You introduced a new behaviour policy last year that gives pupils consistent recognition for their positive attitudes. Pupils behave well in lessons and around the school site. Your staff model good relationships between each other. This sets the tone for pupils, who typically have respectful relationships with their teachers. Pupils particularly value the many sporting opportunities that are open to them at school, such as handball at lunchtime. These make a strong contribution to pupils’ good health and well-being. At the previous inspection you were asked to make sure teachers intervene quickly in lessons to help pupils and so maintain the momentum of their learning. Along with your senior teacher, you are developing a new approach to providing feedback to pupils about their work. Teachers now identify pupils’ misconceptions swiftly and step in during lessons to support them successfully. You were also asked to give pupils more practise at producing extended pieces of writing. Pupils’ work demonstrates your success in this area. Pupils regularly write at length. Teachers ensure that this writing is purposeful and often addressed to a real audience. For example, pupils recently wrote to you to express detailed opinions about mobile phone use in school. Pupils’ progress in mathematics has been around the national average consistently in recent years. You are ambitious to improve pupils’ progress in this subject so it matches the above-average progress pupils made in writing last year. Teaching is helping most key stage 2 pupils make better progress in mathematics. However, your efforts have been more successful in Year 5 than Year 6. Two years ago, a smaller proportion of Year 1 pupils than seen nationally were successful in the phonics screening check. Since then, you have improved phonics teaching in Year 1, and promoted reading effectively for older pupils. A large proportion of pupils now attain the expected standard in the Year 1 phonics screening check. Children in the early years settle quickly and enjoy being at school. Teachers provide a stimulating environment for them and nurture their curiosity well. You have established good communication with local pre-school providers, but you recognise that deepening these links would improve children’s transition when they start at school. Safeguarding is effective. You have ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose and your records are suitably detailed. You are diligent in making sure that effective policies and practices are in place to keep pupils safe. All staff are checked thoroughly before they are appointed to make sure they are suitable to work with children. Even though you make very few referrals to social services, you maintain a high level of vigilance. Your staff are well trained and so they are able to identify any signs of abuse. Staff training is regularly updated. As a result, staff are kept aware of particular risks or of changes to safeguarding legislation. Pupils feel safe and secure at school. Parents agree wholeheartedly. Pupils say that bullying is rare and other inspection evidence confirms this is true. Pupils receive suitable guidance about potential risks in the local area and so they understand how to stay safe in a variety of situations. For example, pupils have recently been alerted to the dangers of swimming in rivers. Over the last year, you have made parents aware of the risks posed by pupils’ use of the internet. Consequently, pupils and parents are well aware of the steps they should take to protect themselves when they are online. Pupils describe you and your staff as caring and approachable. They know they can speak to their teachers if they are concerned about their welfare. You have established an open culture at the school that promotes safeguarding effectively.