Rollesby Primary School

Rollesby Primary School continues to perform well, maintaining its status as a good school. Pupils enjoy their learning experience, with teachers effectively engaging them in a variety of subjects. The school fosters a strong community spirit, ensuring that all students, including those with special educational needs and disabilities, are fully supported and encouraged to participate in school activities. The newly redesigned curriculum enables pupils to build connections with their prior knowledge, helping them achieve well academically and develop a passion for reading. However, there are identified areas where the school needs to improve, particularly in providing sufficient opportunities for pupils to deepen their understanding and apply their knowledge in new contexts. While the school demonstrates notable strengths in personal development and behavior, it faces challenges in ensuring all teachers consistently extend pupils' learning. This has resulted in some students not fully developing their fluency in mathematics and writing. Importantly, this is the first inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, which the school has addressed in its evaluation and ongoing efforts to support both pupils and staff.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy learning and engage passionately with reading.
• Teachers adapt learning to effectively support pupils with SEND.
• High-quality personal development opportunities are offered.
• Pupils achieve well in national tests and assessments.
• Pupils form friendly relationships and behave well.
• Consistent teaching of phonics enables effective early reading development.
• Strong community involvement facilitates social cohesion and inclusivity.

Areas for Improvement

• Opportunities to deepen pupils' knowledge are sometimes lacking.
• Progress in mathematics fluency and writing quality is not consistently supported.

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 Rollesby Primary School attended 94.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.2% 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, 3.8% of pupils at Rollesby 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 Rollesby Primary School had 22.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 19.2% 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, 19.3% of pupils at Rollesby Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.7% 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 Rollesby Primary School received £8,694 and spent £8,087 for each of its 109 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £31,000 (£289 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 Rollesby Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Rollesby Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2024.

When was Rollesby Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Rollesby Primary School was last inspected in May 2024.

How many pupils does Rollesby Primary School have?

Rollesby Primary School has 109 pupils on roll.

What age range does Rollesby Primary School cover?

Rollesby Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

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

In 2025, 65% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Rollesby Primary School?

Rollesby Primary School is at Main Road, Rollesby, Main Road, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR29 5EH.