Fourlanesend Community Primary School

Fourlanesend Community Primary School has improved since its previous inspection and is now performing well across all inspected areas. Strong, respectful relationships and shared values underpin a calm, positive school where pupils behave well, enjoy learning and are motivated to meet high expectations. The school has also strengthened its curriculum since joining the Rame Federation, with reading prioritised and early years providing a strong foundation. Pupils benefit from an ambitious curriculum and a widening range of opportunities, including sport, community events and responsibilities. Reading is a particular strength: staff use the phonics programme skilfully and pupils who need help catch up. Pupils’ wider development is well supported, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. Parents are positive about the changes made this year. However, some subjects are less securely embedded than others, and pupils do not always learn as well where curriculum development is less established. Writing is not taught as effectively as it could be, and tasks do not consistently build towards more complex learning. Support for pupils with SEND has improved but adaptations can be too generic and not sufficiently precise. The school has clear priorities to address these areas.

Strengths

• Strong and respectful relationships underpinned by shared values
• Pupils behave well and meet high expectations
• Ambitious curriculum with clearly identified key knowledge
• Reading prioritised, with effective phonics and catch-up support
• Pupils are confident readers who enthuse about reading
• Early years builds strong foundations in values, routines and curiosity
• Broad personal development opportunities increase aspirations and responsibility
• Pupils learn to be risk aware, healthy and respectful of difference
• Effective safeguarding arrangements
• Parents value recent positive developments
• Leadership focuses on staff workload and well-being
• Improved identification and support for pupils with SEND

Areas for Improvement

• Some subjects are not as securely designed and embedded as others
• Tasks do not consistently build towards more complex learning
• Quality of learning recorded in books is inconsistent
• Teaching of writing is not as effective as it could be
• Expectations for pupils’ writing are not fully clear to teachers
• Some pupils lack opportunities to practise and hone writing skills
• SEND adaptations can be too generic and insufficiently precise
• Staff are not fully clear about how to achieve leaders’ ambitions in some 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 Fourlanesend Community Primary School attended 94.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.7% 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, 6.5% of pupils at Fourlanesend Community 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 Fourlanesend Community Primary School had 13.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 19.0% of pupils at Fourlanesend Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 0.0% 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 Fourlanesend Community Primary School received £9,157 and spent £10,174 for each of its 58 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £1,000 (-£15 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 Fourlanesend Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Fourlanesend Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Fourlanesend Community Primary School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Fourlanesend Community Primary School have?

Fourlanesend Community Primary School has 58 pupils on roll.

What age range does Fourlanesend Community Primary School cover?

Fourlanesend Community Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 45% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Fourlanesend Community Primary School?

Fourlanesend Community Primary School is at Fourlanesend, Cawsand, Torpoint, Cornwall, PL10 1LR.