Greenfields Primary School

Greenfields Primary School is a nurturing and welcoming school where pupils are happy, behave well and feel safe. Relationships with staff and families are strong, attendance is positive, and pupils benefit from a wide and growing range of enrichment and leadership opportunities. The school is part of Severn Bridges Multi-Academy Trust and this was its first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic. Leaders have ensured a broad curriculum from early years to Year 6, adapted well for mixed-age classes. Reading and phonics have high priority, children get a strong start in the two-year-old provision and early years, and provision for pupils with SEND is a particular strength. Although published outcomes in the last academic year were below national standards, improvements in teaching are beginning to have a positive impact and pupils are making strong progress from their starting points. Safeguarding is effective. The main areas for improvement are that the curriculum is not yet fully embedded in some foundation subjects and monitoring in some subjects has not had enough time to check delivery and retention. Pupils' understanding of different faiths and beliefs is also variable, so they are not consistently well prepared for life in modern Britain. Leadership, governance and trust support are clear and ambitious, and staff workload and wellbeing are well considered.

Strengths

• Nurturing, welcoming culture with warm relationships between staff, pupils and families
• Pupils are happy, polite, respectful and behave well
• Pupils feel safe and trust staff to resolve concerns quickly
• Positive attendance rates
• Broad curriculum from early years to Year 6, well adapted for mixed-age classes
• Strong focus on reading, writing and mathematics
• Effective phonics teaching with regular checks and quick catch-up support
• Strong early years provision, including for two-year-olds
• Highly inclusive provision for pupils with SEND
• Increasing enrichment and pupil leadership opportunities
• Clear leadership ambition supported by governors and the trust
• Good consideration of staff workload and wellbeing
• Effective safeguarding arrangements

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum not fully embedded in some foundation subjects
• Insufficient monitoring of curriculum implementation and knowledge retention in some subjects
• Pupils' understanding of different faiths and beliefs is variable and not secure
• Published outcomes were below national standards in the last academic year

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 Greenfields Primary School attended 95.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.6% 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, 0.5% of pupils at Greenfields Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Greenfields Primary School had 24.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.6% 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, 15.8% of pupils at Greenfields Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.0% 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 2024–25 Greenfields Primary School received £6,804 and spent £6,711 for each of its 359 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £232,000 (£647 per pupil).

Across all 5 schools of Severn Bridges Multi Academy Trust, income was £6,926 and spending £6,805 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 Shrewsbury · Shropshire local authority: places and applications

Greenfields Primary School is part of Severn Bridges Multi Academy Trust, which runs 6 schools. The nearest others:

• Mount Pleasant Primary Shrewsbury
• Sundorne Infant School and Nursery Shrewsbury
• Harlescott Junior School Shrewsbury
• Radbrook Primary School Shrewsbury
• Short Wood Primary School Telford

What is Greenfields Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Greenfields Primary School is Good, from an inspection in June 2025.

When was Greenfields Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Greenfields Primary School was last inspected in June 2025.

How many pupils does Greenfields Primary School have?

Greenfields Primary School has 342 pupils on roll.

What age range does Greenfields Primary School cover?

Greenfields Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

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

In 2025, 81% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Greenfields Primary School?

Greenfields Primary School is at Hemsworth Way, Ellesmere Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2AH.