Welbourne Primary Academy

Welbourne Primary Academy is performing well overall, with a consistent good rating across all inspected areas including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The school has created a nurturing environment where pupils feel safe and enjoy learning. The curriculum is broad and well-structured, ensuring that pupils are engaged and motivated in their studies, particularly in early reading and phonics, which are given special attention. Leaders are committed to ongoing improvement, actively utilizing insights from pupil performance data to enhance curricular delivery.

Strengths

• Strong, inclusive relationships between pupils and adults.
• Well-planned and implemented curriculum that builds on prior knowledge.
• High-quality training provided to staff.
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Wide range of extra-curricular opportunities available to pupils.
• Positive behaviour management strategies in place.

Areas for Improvement

• A small number of pupils leave lessons too frequently, disrupting their learning and that of others.

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 Welbourne Primary Academy attended 93.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.1% 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 Welbourne Primary Academy 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 Welbourne Primary Academy had 15.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 18.5% 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, 7.9% of pupils at Welbourne Primary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 10.7% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 5 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 Welbourne Primary Academy received £10,376 and spent £10,358 for each of its 192 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £222,000 (£1,157 per pupil).

Across all 6 schools of Thomas Deacon Education Trust, income was £8,207 and spending £8,153 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 Peterborough · Peterborough local authority: places and applications

Welbourne Primary Academy is part of Thomas Deacon Education Trust, which runs 6 schools. The nearest others:

• Queen Katharine Academy Peterborough
• Gladstone Primary Academy Peterborough
• Thomas Deacon Academy Peterborough
• Upwood Primary Academy Huntingdon
• Warboys Primary Academy Huntingdon

What is Welbourne Primary Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Welbourne Primary Academy is Good, from an inspection in November 2023.

When was Welbourne Primary Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Welbourne Primary Academy was last inspected in November 2023.

How many pupils does Welbourne Primary Academy have?

Welbourne Primary Academy has 177 pupils on roll.

What age range does Welbourne Primary Academy cover?

Welbourne Primary Academy for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Welbourne Primary Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 45% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Welbourne Primary Academy?

Welbourne Primary Academy is at Goodwin Walk, Werrington, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE4 6NR.