Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School

Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School is a welcoming, caring school where pupils are happy, feel safe and behave well. Inspectors found effective routines, respectful relationships and a calm environment, with pupils embracing the school’s ‘ready, respectful and safe’ values. The school has improved since its previous inspection and is now performing well across the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision; safeguarding is effective. The curriculum is well sequenced and helps pupils build knowledge and make connections, and reading is central, with strong early reading support and proactive help for pupils who fall behind. Staff support pupils with SEND well, adapt teaching to meet needs, and provide a wide range of clubs and community experiences that develop pupils’ confidence and social responsibility. Leaders and governors are focused on improvement and staff feel well supported. Two areas still need attention. In some subjects, the key knowledge pupils should learn is not clearly identified, which can limit progression over time. Also, a small number of pupils on part-time timetables do not return to full-time education quickly enough, so they miss out on the full curriculum for longer than they should.

Strengths

• Welcoming, caring school where pupils are happy and feel safe
• Pupils behave well, show respect and kindness, and lessons are calm
• Well-sequenced curriculum builds pupils’ knowledge and skills over time
• Strong focus on early reading with effective support for pupils who fall behind
• Staff identify and support pupils with SEND well, adapting teaching to meet needs
• Pupils enjoy a wide range of extracurricular clubs and additional opportunities
• Personal development is well considered through cultural events and community projects
• Leaders and governors make thoughtful decisions and support staff well
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• Key knowledge is not clearly identified in some subjects, limiting how well pupils build knowledge over time
• Some pupils on part-time timetables do not access full-time education quickly enough

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 Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School attended 94.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 13.0% 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, 2.6% of pupils at Thongsley Fields 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 Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School had 14.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.3% 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, 42.4% of pupils at Thongsley Fields 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 Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School received £9,291 and spent £10,088 for each of its 215 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £497,000 (£2,319 per pupil).

Across all 17 schools of The Cam Academy Trust, income was £8,882 and spending £9,053 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 Huntingdon · Cambridgeshire local authority: places and applications

Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School is part of The Cam Academy Trust, which runs 17 schools. The nearest others:

• Hartford Junior School Huntingdon
• Hartford Infant and Preschool Huntingdon
• St Peter's School Huntingdon
• Godmanchester Community Academy Huntingdon
• Cromwell Academy Huntingdon
• Hinchingbrooke School Huntingdon
• Godmanchester Bridge Academy Godmanchester
• Offord Primary School St Neots
• Spaldwick Primary School Huntingdon
• Cambourne Village College Cambridge

What is Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School is Good, from an inspection in June 2025.

When was Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School last inspected by Ofsted?

Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School was last inspected in June 2025.

How many pupils does Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School have?

Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School has 210 pupils on roll.

What age range does Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School cover?

Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 41% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School?

Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School is at Buttsgrove Way, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 1PE.