Fowey Primary School

Strengths

• Safeguarding arrangements are effective and pupils feel safe.
• Attendance is above national average and continues to improve.
• Pupils behave calmly and orderly, with positive attitudes to learning.
• The school's inclusive ethos ensures pupils with SEND learn well and thrive.
• Early years provision is carefully sequenced and gets children off to a positive start.
• Reading and wider reading are particular strengths.
• The curriculum is ambitious and thoughtfully designed for mixed-age classes.
• Personal development is strong, with a broad range of enriching experiences.
• Pastoral support builds pupils' resilience and wellbeing.
• Staff work closely with families and external agencies to remove barriers.
• Leaders and the trust provide effective support and manage staff workload well.
• Pupils take on leadership roles and contribute to the school community.

Areas for Improvement

• Mathematics achievement has historically been below national averages, and published outcomes do not yet fully reflect recent improvements.
• In a small number of subjects, teachers' checks on learning are not consistently precise enough, so misconceptions occasionally persist.
• Some pupils have gaps in knowledge that are not closing as quickly as they should.
• Leaders do not always use performance information precisely enough to check that actions are having the intended impact.
• Pupils have less knowledge of cultures that are different from their own.
• Disadvantaged pupils show persistent gaps compared with non-disadvantaged peers nationally in some areas, particularly reading and mathematics.

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