Sunnyfields Primary School

Sunnyfields Primary School is a high-performing, inclusive school. Safeguarding standards are met. Inspectors found exceptional practice in attendance and behaviour, and strong standards across achievement, curriculum and teaching, early years, inclusion, leadership and governance, and personal development and wellbeing. Pupils achieve well above national averages in reading, writing and mathematics by Year 6, and disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND also make strong progress.

Strengths

• Attendance is consistently above the national average for all groups, including disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND.
• Pupils' behaviour is exemplary, with rare bullying and a deeply embedded culture of respect and inclusion.
• Pupils consistently achieve above national averages in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of Year 6.
• Disadvantaged pupils achieve as well as their peers and outperform non-disadvantaged pupils nationally.
• Pupils with SEND make notable progress from their individual starting points.
• The curriculum is carefully sequenced and ambitious, with a strong priority on spoken language and communication.
• Staff deliver the phonics programme skilfully, giving pupils a strong start in early reading and writing.
• The early years curriculum prioritises communication and language and helps children settle and achieve well.
• Inclusion is at the heart of the school, with effective tailored support through the 'Blossoms' provision.
• Leaders have an ambitious vision and use regular evaluation to adapt provision well.
• Governors provide strong strategic oversight and effective challenge and support.
• Staff feel trusted, valued and well supported, with purposeful professional learning.
• Personal development prepares pupils well for life in modern Britain and as active citizens.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of leadership opportunities, clubs, visits and wider experiences.
• Safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture in which concerns are actively identified and managed.

Areas for Improvement

• Adaptive teaching is not yet consistently precise across all subjects.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Sunnyfields Primary School attended 96.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.4% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 1.6% of pupils at Sunnyfields Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Sunnyfields Primary School had 19.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.4% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 18.7% of pupils at Sunnyfields Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.8% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Sunnyfields Primary School received £8,428 and spent £8,645 for each of its 238 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £263,000 (£1,105 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Sunnyfields Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Sunnyfields Primary School is Strong standard, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was Sunnyfields Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Sunnyfields Primary School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Sunnyfields Primary School have?

Sunnyfields Primary School has 251 pupils on roll.

What age range does Sunnyfields Primary School cover?

Sunnyfields Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Sunnyfields Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 80% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Sunnyfields Primary School?

Sunnyfields Primary School is at Hatchcroft, Off Greyhound Hill, Hendon, London, NW4 4JH.