Hawkedale Primary School

Hawkedale Primary School is a small, caring and community-focused school where pupils feel safe, happy and well looked after. Safeguarding standards are met, attendance is consistently above the national average, and persistent absence is low. Pupils show positive attitudes, respectful relationships and good behaviour, while early years provision and personal development, including pastoral support, are clear strengths. Staff morale remains high despite a challenging period of staffing and leadership restructure, and governors meet their statutory responsibilities.

Strengths

• Safeguarding standards are met through an open culture where concerns are actively identified and managed.
• Attendance is consistently above the national average and persistent absence is consistently low.
• Pupils feel valued, supported and included, and respectful relationships are evident throughout the school.
• Behaviour is positive, bullying is rare, and staff support pupils with emotional regulation effectively.
• Early years provision is a strong focus, with children achieving well and being well prepared for Year 1.
• The personal development curriculum and pastoral support are notable strengths, including for disadvantaged pupils.
• Pupils benefit from meaningful leadership roles and a range of enrichment experiences.
• Leaders and governors prioritise staff wellbeing and workload, helping maintain high staff morale.
• Leaders identify pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities swiftly and have high expectations for them.
• Governors meet their statutory responsibilities and understand the school's improvement priorities.

Areas for Improvement

• Achievement needs attention because some pupils, including those with SEND and disadvantaged pupils, do not achieve as well as they could.
• Teaching quality is inconsistent across classes and does not always ensure all pupils learn the curriculum as intended.
• Some pupils lack handwriting fluency, which limits their ability to record ideas efficiently and complete longer writing.
• Year 1 phonics results were lower than national outcomes last year, although leaders have taken effective action since.
• Adaptations for pupils with SEND are inconsistent, and leaders do not ensure these pupils are consistently well supported.
• Oversight of the pupil premium strategy is limited, and actions to support disadvantaged pupils are not routinely checked or consistently implemented.
• Disadvantaged pupils do not consistently receive timely, targeted support and therefore do not always access the full ambition of the curriculum.
• Leaders' improvement actions are in the early stages and have not yet had the required impact on pupil outcomes.
• Some aspects of the school's work would benefit from further and more thorough quality assurance.
• Teachers do not routinely identify and address gaps in pupils' knowledge, so some pupils make less progress than they could.

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 Hawkedale Primary School attended 96.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 7.1% 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 Hawkedale 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 Hawkedale Primary School had 22.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.8% 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, 13.1% of pupils at Hawkedale Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.8% 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 Hawkedale Primary School received £6,731 and spent £6,874 for each of its 206 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £311,000 (£1,511 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 Hawkedale Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Hawkedale Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was Hawkedale Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Hawkedale Primary School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Hawkedale Primary School have?

Hawkedale Primary School has 206 pupils on roll.

What age range does Hawkedale Primary School cover?

Hawkedale Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Hawkedale Primary School?

Hawkedale Primary School is at Stratton Road, Sunbury on Thames, Surrey, TW16 6PG.