Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision

Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision is a caring, welcoming school where pupils feel happy and safe and relationships are warm. Behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision are strong; children get off to a good start, reading is a priority, and pupils are confident, respectful and take on responsibilities. Safeguarding is effective, and staff feel supported by the trust amid recent staffing changes. However, the quality of education requires improvement. In too many wider curriculum subjects, leaders have not identified the essential knowledge pupils should learn and remember, staff subject knowledge is not secure enough, and learning activities do not consistently match intended outcomes. As a result, pupils have gaps and struggle to remember learning over time. The school identifies pupils with SEND appropriately, but this information is not always used well enough to make learning clear and meaningful. The trust has robust plans to strengthen curriculum implementation, and the report sets out clear priorities for improving curriculum knowledge, staff expertise and checks on curriculum delivery.

Strengths

• Children get off to a strong start in the early years, with a carefully designed curriculum that follows their interests.
• Staff support children’s language development well and encourage independence.
• Reading is prioritised and pupils learn to read well, including through a secure phonics approach.
• Pupils are happy, safe and behave well; poor behaviour is dealt with swiftly.
• Pupils show genuine care for others and take on roles of responsibility enthusiastically.
• Pupils understand and respect differences, including race and religion.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• The school monitors attendance and provides well-placed support to families.
• Staff feel the school prioritises their well-being and workload, and the trust provides effective support.

Areas for Improvement

• The wider curriculum does not identify the most important knowledge pupils need to know and remember.
• Staff lack secure subject knowledge to teach the wider curriculum well.
• Some learning activities do not help pupils achieve the intended learning outcomes.
• Pupils, including those with SEND, have gaps in knowledge and find it hard to remember learning over time.
• Information about pupils’ SEND is not always used effectively enough to make learning clear and meaningful.
• The school does not make strong enough checks that curriculum delivery meets leaders’ expectations.

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 Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision attended 94.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 17.2% 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, 5.0% of pupils at Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision 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 Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision had 17.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 61.5% 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, 16.7% of pupils at Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 19.9% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has a SEN unit with 23 pupils.

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 2024–25 Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision received £9,273 and spent £9,763 for each of its 215 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £30,000 (£140 per pupil).

Across all 32 schools of The Enquire Learning Trust, income was £7,171 and spending £7,034 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Hyde · Tameside local authority: places and applications

Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision is part of The Enquire Learning Trust, which runs 32 schools. The nearest others:

• Bradley Green Primary Academy Hyde
• Flowery Field Primary School Hyde
• Godley Community Primary Academy Hyde
• Endeavour Primary Academy Hyde
• Linden Road Academy Tameside
• Dowson Primary Academy Hyde
• Moorside Primary School Manchester
• Manchester Road Primary Academy Manchester
• Broughton Primary Academy Brigg
• Buckingham Primary Academy Hull

What is Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision last inspected by Ofsted?

Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision have?

Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision has 221 pupils on roll.

What age range does Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision cover?

Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 33% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision?

Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision is at St Mary's Road, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 4EZ.