Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School

Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School is a warm, inclusive school where staff know pupils and families well and pupils feel safe and ready to learn. This was the school's first routine section 5 inspection, and inspectors found it performing well across education, behaviour, personal development, leadership and early years. The school's specially resourced provision for pupils with SEND is a notable strength, and pupils with SEND are integrated into lessons and school life wherever possible. Leaders are ambitious and have designed a broad curriculum that meets pupils' needs, including those with SEND, and pupils achieve well from their starting points even though published outcomes do not fully reflect this. Early years communication and language support and the phonics programme are strong. Pupils behave well, benefit from a wide range of clubs and visits, and are proud of their diversity council. Safeguarding is effective, and staff and governance are well supported. However, inspectors identified inconsistencies in how the curriculum is delivered in some lessons and subjects, including variable checking of pupils' understanding and gaps in knowledge not being addressed promptly. Attendance is also a significant concern, with too many pupils missing too much school and therefore missing important learning and wider opportunities. The school is working with parents to improve this.

Strengths

• Warm, caring relationships between staff and pupils
• Nurturing approach that supports pupils' well-being and readiness to learn
• Strong inclusion, including a specially resourced SEND provision integrated into school life
• Ambitious leadership with high expectations for pupils
• Broad and balanced curriculum designed around pupils' needs, including SEND
• Pupils achieve well from their starting points despite published outcomes not reflecting this
• Strong early years focus on communication and language
• Well-structured phonics programme with books matched to pupils' phonics knowledge
• Clear explanations and well-designed tasks in most subjects
• Pupils behave well and follow school routines
• Swift, well-considered targeted support for pupils' feelings and emotions
• Carefully designed personal development offer with clubs and local visits
• Pupils with SEND have the same wider opportunities as their peers
• Pupil diversity council contributes to assemblies and promotes respect
• Staff feel supported with workload and challenges
• Governance has a clear understanding of responsibilities and school context
• Effective safeguarding arrangements

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent curriculum delivery strategies in some lessons
• Variable checking of pupils' understanding in some lessons
• Gaps in pupils' learning not addressed promptly and effectively in some subjects
• Staff in some subjects lack knowledge and skills to identify and address gaps
• Too many pupils miss too many days of school

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 Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School attended 92.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 25.4% 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, 1.1% of pupils at Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery 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 Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School had 20.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 11.7% 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, 25.8% of pupils at Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.5% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 12 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 Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School received £8,084 and spent £8,146 for each of its 513 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £233,000 (£455 per pupil).

Across all 7 schools of Sheffield South East Trust, income was £7,381 and spending £7,615 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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Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School is part of Sheffield South East Trust, which runs 7 schools. The nearest others:

• Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School Sheffield
• Norfolk Community Primary School Sheffield
• Acres Hill Community Primary School Sheffield
• Phillimore Community Primary School Sheffield
• Gleadless Primary School Sheffield
• Woodhouse West Primary School Sheffield

What is Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School is Good, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School last inspected by Ofsted?

Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School have?

Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School has 555 pupils on roll.

What age range does Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School cover?

Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 38% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School?

Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School is at Manor Oaks Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S2 5ED.