The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. Your highly effective leadership has been crucial in ensuring that Westglade continues to serve its community so successfully. It is a friendly school where pupils make good progress. High levels of disadvantage in the local community provide particular challenges for you and your staff, but your ambition for your pupils is unwavering. Your expectation is that pupils will reach standards in reading, writing and mathematics at least as high as other pupils do nationally. As a result of consistently strong teaching, your pupils meet this target. They leave Westglade with the skills and self-belief essential if they are to succeed at their secondary schools. Staff morale is high. They are proud to work at the school and value the consideration you give to both their professional development and their well-being. Working with them you have created an attractive and stimulating school environment where learning across the whole curriculum is celebrated. All of the parents who I spoke with at the start of the day praised your school. Their views were reinforced in Ofsted’s online parent questionnaire. One parent wrote: ‘All staff are friendly, professional and approachable. I am always greeted with smiles and well wishes. Children are praised for their achievements and encouraged to strive for their goals. I would absolutely recommend Westglade to others.’ Among the many areas of improvement since the previous inspection, some stand out: the leaders of English, mathematics, early years and special educational needs drive school improvement more strongly than in the past all subject areas now have identified leaders who are developing carefully sequenced programmes of study in their subject systems for checking the quality of teaching and learning have been improved and their findings are promptly acted upon to bring about better outcomes for pupils the quality and extent of pastoral support for pupils and their families have increased and are highly valued by the community pupils benefit from a wider range of educational visits and experiences that enrich the curriculum. Pupils enjoy school and talk with great enthusiasm about their learning. Their behaviour has improved since the previous inspection. They have positive attitudes to their work, and this contributes to the strong progress that they make. They get on extremely well with one another and the adults who teach them. They readily accept that some of their peers require careful support, and sensible adjustments to the curriculum, so that they too can thrive at Westglade. There is an above-average proportion of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) in the school. Your improved strategies for checking on pupils’ progress clearly identifies the barriers to learning that put individual pupils at risk of underachieving. Class teachers have responsibility for removing these barriers. Working with the leader for SEND, they adapt their teaching as necessary and put in place targeted support. The impact of any additional support is evaluated carefully to ensure that it is effectively addressing pupils’ needs. Throughout the school, pupils with SEND make good progress, with many attaining in line with, or above, their peers in reading, writing and mathematics. The previous inspection asked you to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Through the very effective use of the pupil premium you have ensured that this group of pupils make good progress and now reach standards that are close the national average. Safeguarding is effective. The arrangements for safeguarding pupils are fit for purpose. You work effectively with the two other designated safeguarding leaders to ensure that the school has robust safeguarding arrangements in place. All staff have appropriate and up-todate training so that they can spot and deal with any concerns quickly. You are proactive, liaising with external agencies, and challenging them where necessary, to ensure that vulnerable pupils receive timely and appropriate support.