Newbury Park Primary School

Newbury Park Primary is a large, four-form entry primary school that inspectors found to be performing well across education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years. Pupils feel safe, enjoy school and respond well to the school’s values and high expectations. Support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities is very effective, reading and phonics are prioritised, behaviour is typically good, and attendance is above the national average and improving. Safeguarding arrangements are effective. The school has made recent curriculum changes designed to build knowledge sequentially and raise ambition for all pupils. These changes are already having a positive impact, but some aspects of the wider curriculum still need further development. The main areas for improvement are inconsistent use of assessment to check pupils’ understanding and address gaps or misconceptions, and limited opportunities to nurture, develop and stretch pupils’ talents and interests. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has a recently appointed headteacher and recent changes to leadership and governance. Leaders have quickly evaluated strengths and weaknesses and have addressed many areas, while recognising that further work is needed to support staff in delivering new curriculum aspects well.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe and are kept safe, with strong relationships between staff and pupils.
• High expectations begin in the early years and help most pupils work hard and achieve highly.
• Support for pupils with SEND is accurately identified and very effective in class.
• Reading is a priority, with effective phonics teaching and well-matched reading books.
• Pupils typically behave well, show respect and respond quickly to instructions.
• Bullying is rare and quickly resolved, and pupils are confident to talk to staff.
• Personal development is well supported, including health, safety, relationships and understanding different faiths and cultures.
• Attendance is above the national average and improving.
• Pupils have a wide range of leadership and ambassador opportunities.
• Enrichment activities, including ‘golden time’, help broaden pupils’ horizons.
• The school is typically calm and orderly, and younger children settle well into routines.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment is not used consistently across the curriculum to check pupils’ understanding.
• Gaps in learning can arise because misconceptions are not always identified and addressed.
• Staff need further support to use assessment well and to deliver new curriculum aspects effectively.
• Opportunities to nurture, develop and stretch pupils’ talents and interests are not well developed.
• Pupils do not always make good use of the opportunities on offer to develop their talents and interests.
• Some parts of the wider curriculum still need further development.

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 Newbury Park Primary School attended 94.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.9% 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, 0.6% of pupils at Newbury Park 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 Newbury Park Primary School had 25.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 50.3% 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, 8.2% of pupils at Newbury Park Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.4% 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 Newbury Park Primary School received £8,093 and spent £7,411 for each of its 728 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £1,330,000 (£1,828 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 Newbury Park Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Newbury Park Primary School is Good, from an inspection in January 2025.

When was Newbury Park Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Newbury Park Primary School was last inspected in January 2025.

How many pupils does Newbury Park Primary School have?

Newbury Park Primary School has 752 pupils on roll.

What age range does Newbury Park Primary School cover?

Newbury Park Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 61% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Newbury Park Primary School?

Newbury Park Primary School is at Perryman's Farm Road, Barkingside, Ilford, Essex, IG2 7LB.