Fairway Primary Academy

Strengths

• Leaders are highly ambitious and have a clear, strategic vision for all pupils.
• Trustees and trust leaders provide effective support and challenge, helping improvements happen quickly.
• Attendance systems are effective, and pupils generally attend well.
• Behaviour has been strengthened, creating a calm and focused learning environment.
• Pupils are welcoming, happy, respectful and proud to attend the school.
• The curriculum is broad and well sequenced, with strong phonics and reading provision.
• Early years provision gives children a positive start and prepares them well for Year 1.
• Inclusion is a priority, and pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils are supported effectively.
• Personal development is well planned, including safety, wellbeing, British values and cultural diversity.
• Pupils feel safe, have positive relationships with staff and know how to get help.
• Staff receive effective professional development, and workload is kept manageable.
• A wide range of clubs, trips and pupil voice opportunities are available to all pupils.
• Safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture of safeguarding.

Areas for Improvement

• Some teachers do not have consistently high expectations of what pupils can achieve, especially in the wider curriculum.
• The quality of pupils' work sometimes lacks consistency as a result of variable expectations.
• Handwriting is not consistently well taught or well formed across subjects and year groups.

• Primary Schools
• Secondary Schools