The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. Your approach to sharing leadership responsibility with a number of key staff across school has paid dividends. The school benefits from dedicated and skilled leaders in every aspect of school life. Your passionate, caring and supportive approach has steered the school through some turbulent waters during the past six months. You have been ably supported by the hard-working deputy headteacher, whose skills complement your own. Together, you form a strong senior team. The knowledgeable and passionate governing body is highly motivated to support the work of the school. It plays a key role in many aspects of school life and knows the school inside out. Leaders of curriculum subjects are skilled in driving forward learning, with actions tied tightly to improving outcomes for pupils. Systems to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the many actions to improve teaching in every subject are well established. Your rigorous and robust self-evaluation forms the basis for detailed plans to make further improvements. The whole-school community’s ambition to provide the best opportunities for pupils to thrive is crystal clear. You have effectively addressed areas for improvement identified at the last inspection. Teaching is consistently good and sometimes better. Systems to monitor the quality of teaching, which include specific feedback to teachers on strengths and areas to improve, are well established. Pupils know exactly how well they have done and their next steps to success. They are proud of their ‘target passport’, which they carry to all lessons and refer to often. Children in the early years complete their five ‘rainbow challenges’ over a week, while pupils in Year 1 work through ‘ladders of achievement’ in mathematics. You have worked hard to ensure that all pupils make good progress in their learning, including in reading and mathematics. Inspection evidence demonstrates that current Year 6 pupils’ progress is on track to match last year’s national averages. You acknowledge that over time this has not been the case, as seen in published data. You have put in place a range of strategies to accelerate pupils’ progress, including for disadvantaged pupils, which are now bearing fruit. There is further work to do to ensure that the attainment of disadvantaged pupils rises to match that of other pupils nationally and their classmates. You agree that the quality of pupils’ handwriting, spelling and presentation remains variable across school and that improving this is an important next step. You have worked hard to ensure that pupils’ personal development and welfare are of the highest standard. Pupils speak highly of the school. One pupil said that ‘school is exciting, brilliant, fun, as you never know what is going to happen.’ Pupils told an inspector that assemblies teach them to understand that everyone is equal, and that equality is a theme that runs through school. You take pride in the fact that school offers a wide range of interesting and unique opportunities to pupils within the curriculum. The topic-based approach ensures that all national curriculum objectives are taught and assessed, and pupils’ progress tracked in every subject. The curriculum is enhanced by a range of enterprise opportunities such as making and selling jewellery and mugs, as well as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) opportunities. The school motto of ‘children learn what they live’ is clearly evident. Parents and carers are highly appreciative of the school and know how to report any issue regarding safety. One parent stated that ‘this school is very family orientated. There is a wonderful, close-knit community feel to the school.’ Pupils are valued as individuals, and the school has a close-knit family atmosphere, seemingly in contradiction to its well-above-average size. Safeguarding is effective. The leadership team has ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose. Safeguarding meets requirements in every respect, with numerous examples of exemplary practice. All staff are vigilant and quick to raise any issue or concern. All adults, including governors, strive with dedication and passion to ensure that every single pupil is safe and has opportunities to excel and succeed. Work completed by the child and family welfare officer is having a significantly positive impact on pupils’ well-being and attendance. The curriculum supports pupils well in maintaining their own safety. Pupils have full trust in their teachers and teaching assistants who look after them, and pupils report feeling safe all of the time. Pupils told inspectors that ‘teachers care about our emotions’ and they ‘say we must have our own opinions’. Parents are equally clear about their children’s safety. All 248 who responded to the Ofsted questionnaire, Parent View, stated that their child is safe, is happy at school and that they would recommend the school to another parent.