Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School

Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School is a school operating at the expected standard across all evaluated areas, including achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, early years, inclusion, leadership and governance, and personal development and wellbeing. Pupils generally achieve well, with younger pupils securing essential early reading, writing and mathematical knowledge and older pupils typically having the knowledge they need for the next stage. Pupils behave well, attend consistently in line with national levels, and benefit from an inclusive, welcoming environment with strong pastoral support and a wide enrichment offer. Safeguarding standards are met, with an open and positive culture in which pupils feel safe. The school has undergone recent changes to its senior leadership team, including a new headteacher and deputy headteacher, and is part of the John Taylor MAT; leaders have quickly established an accurate understanding of strengths and areas for improvement and have worked on the right priorities.

Strengths

• Pupils achieve well overall, including disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND, in English and mathematics
• Phonics is taught effectively, and pupils achieve in line with national levels in the Year 1 phonics check and Year 4 multiplication tables check
• Effective attendance systems ensure persistent absence is consistently in line with national levels
• Pupils behave well, bullying and discrimination are rare, and leaders deal with issues quickly
• A well-sequenced curriculum provides progression across subjects and is supported by effective teaching
• Leaders provide effective professional learning, ensuring staff have the expertise they need to support pupils
• Early years provision is strong, with children settling quickly, forming positive relationships, and learning important early knowledge
• Inclusion is effective: needs are identified swiftly, support plans have precise targets, and an inclusion hub successfully supports pupils with complex SEND
• Leaders are ambitious and act in the best interests of pupils, with vulnerable pupils at the centre of their thinking
• Trustees and local governors fulfil their statutory duties and provide appropriate support and challenge
• A rich personal development programme, including an extensive enrichment offer, helps pupils grow into confident, well-rounded individuals
• Pastoral support is effective and responsive, helping pupils overcome barriers to wellbeing

Areas for Improvement

• In the wider curriculum, some tasks do not allow pupils to develop their ideas fully, limiting practice with new vocabulary and depth of thinking
• Some pupils do not produce the same quality of handwriting and presentation in the wider curriculum as in English and mathematics
• In the early years, activities are sometimes not precisely matched to the intended learning, making some activities less purposeful
• The 2024/25 end of key stage 2 results in reading, writing and mathematics were lower than in previous years, including for disadvantaged pupils

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 Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School attended 95.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 12.6% 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, 1.2% of pupils at Winshill Village Primary and 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 Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School had 23.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 36.4% 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, 17.9% of pupils at Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.8% 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 Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School received £6,619 and spent £7,276 for each of its 232 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £91,000 (-£395 per pupil).

Across all 20 schools of John Taylor Mat, income was £7,398 and spending £7,462 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 Burton-On-Trent · Staffordshire local authority: places and applications

Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School is part of John Taylor Mat, which runs 21 schools. The nearest others:

• Paulet High School Burton-On-Trent
• Shobnall Primary & Nursery School Burton-On-Trent
• Church Gresley Infant and Nursery School Swadlincote
• Rykneld Primary School Burton-On-Trent
• Branston Locks Primary and Nursery School Burton-On-Trent
• The Mosley Academy Burton-On-Trent
• John Taylor Free School Burton-On-Trent
• Walton On Trent CofE Primary and Nursery School Swadlincote
• All Saints CofE (C) Primary School Burton-On-Trent
• Thomas Russell Infants School Burton-On-Trent

What is Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School is Expected standard, from an inspection in July 2026.

When was Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School last inspected by Ofsted?

Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School was last inspected in July 2026.

How many pupils does Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School have?

Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School has 252 pupils on roll.

What age range does Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School cover?

Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 44% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School?

Winshill Village Primary and Nursery School is at Brough Road, Winshill, Burton-on-Trent, DE15 0DH.