Woodcote Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. The headteacher is providing strong and effective leadership in developing the school. Together with other leaders, managers and governors, this has ensured that teaching and pupils' achievement have continued to improve.

Governors have an accurate knowledge of the school and provide good challenge to school leaders to improve all pupils' achievement. The staff are very supportive of the leadership and are working together to develop the school. The school's plan for improvement has clear measurable outcomes which help leaders to check that their actions have been effective.

Teaching is good because of the well planned lessons and the go...od relationships the teachers have with the pupils. Teaching assistants are used well to support the pupils' learning. Pupils feel safe, enjoy their learning and are well behaved around the school.

They are polite and courteous to each other and adults. Pupils achieve well because the teaching is good, and they have good attitudes to learning. The Early Years Foundation Stage is good.

The activities are well planned using accurate knowledge about children's individual abilities. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Teaching is not yet enabling pupils to make rapid progress in reading. Teaching of phonics (the sounds letters make) is not planned at an appropriate level for many of the children and does not always maintain children's interest.

Teachers are not consistently challenging all pupils to do their best. Teachers do not always make sure that pupils follow up on comments about how to improve their work. Teachers have limited opportunities to see outstanding teaching.

Information about this school

This is a smaller-than-average-sized primary school. Most pupils are of White British origin, with a few from a range of other ethnic backgrounds. The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is well below average.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is above average. The proportion known to be eligible for the pupil premium (additional funding to support children in local authority care and those known to be eligible for free school meals) is well below average. The Early Years Foundation Stage consists of one full-time Reception class.

The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress. The school works in partnership with other local schools to share expertise and to help each other improve teaching and leadership. There is a privately-run early years provision on site.

This was not part of this inspection. There have been a number of changes to leadership in recent years. The current headteacher was appointed in April 2014.

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