Valley View Primary School

Valley View Primary School is a highly effective community primary school where pupils’ behaviour, personal development, leadership and early years provision are outstanding, while the quality of education is good. Inspectors found pupils to be polite, considerate and remarkably empathetic, with exemplary conduct in lessons and around school. Early years children get a strong start, phonics is taught well, pupils with SEND are identified precisely, and the wider curriculum and extra-curricular offer are rich. Safeguarding is effective, governance is strong, and staff feel well supported. The main area for improvement is mathematics. In 2024, pupils’ attainment did not meet leaders’ high expectations, and gaps in some older pupils’ mathematical knowledge were not identified and closed swiftly enough, so those pupils did not achieve as well as they could. Leaders have already set a clear expectation that these gaps should be addressed quickly. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic and its first section 5 inspection since 2014; under current arrangements it does not receive an overall effectiveness grade. The school has a specially resourced SEND provision for social, emotional and mental health needs, though no pupils are currently accessing it, and it also uses a local primary school’s provision for speech, language and communication needs.

Strengths

• Pupils are polite, considerate and remarkably empathetic ambassadors for their school.
• Behaviour and attitudes are exemplary in classrooms and around the school.
• Early years provision is vibrant and richly resourced, with a strong focus on communication, language and vocabulary.
• Phonics teaching is well trained, with gaps identified and closed swiftly so early readers achieve highly.
• Identification of pupils’ needs, including SEND, is precise and effective.
• Curriculums are high quality and well implemented across the school.
• Pupils’ wider development is diverse and well thought out, including industry links, visits and clubs.
• Leadership is resolute, with strong governance and a clear focus on staff workload and well-being.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• Attendance is not an issue, and leaders work effectively with parents where support is needed.

Areas for Improvement

• In mathematics, 2024 attainment was below leaders’ high expectations because gaps in some older pupils’ knowledge were not identified and closed swiftly enough.

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 Valley View Primary School attended 96.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.7% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Valley View 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 Valley View Primary School had 23.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 25.0% 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, 25.5% of pupils at Valley View Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.8% 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 Valley View Primary School received £6,700 and spent £6,799 for each of its 245 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £80,000 (£328 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 Valley View Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Valley View Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was Valley View Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Valley View Primary School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Valley View Primary School have?

Valley View Primary School has 251 pupils on roll.

What age range does Valley View Primary School cover?

Valley View Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 70% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Valley View Primary School?

Valley View Primary School is at Valley View, Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, NE32 5QY.