Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School

Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School is a warm and welcoming school that has made a strong start since opening in 2022. This was its first routine inspection, and it currently serves children from Nursery to Year 2 as part of the John Taylor Multi-Academy Trust. Children flourish in the exceptional early years provision, and pupils are kind, polite and positive about learning. The school is ambitious for all pupils and has created a sequenced curriculum from Nursery to Year 2, with particularly strong reading and phonics teaching. Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities achieve well, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. Personal development and early years provision are outstanding. The school has a meticulously considered personal development programme that builds confidence, resilience and responsibility, and pupils benefit from memorable traditions and leadership opportunities. Behaviour is good, with clear routines established from Nursery, and older pupils act as strong role models. Governance and trust oversight are effective, and staff value the professional development and support they receive. The main areas for improvement concern consistency in teaching and curriculum precision. In some subjects, the key knowledge pupils must learn has not been identified consistently, so tasks sometimes do not match the intended learning. Some teaching approaches are not applied consistently, and teachers do not always check pupils' understanding well enough or adapt their teaching accordingly. The school is refining its curriculum sensibly as it grows, but these inconsistencies mean pupils do not learn as well as they could.

Strengths

• Exceptional early years provision that builds confidence, resilience and a love of learning
• Warm and welcoming school culture with kind, polite and well-mannered pupils
• Ambitious curriculum sequenced from Nursery to Year 2
• Strong reading and phonics teaching with effective checks on pupils' progress
• Pupils with SEND achieve well through thoughtful curriculum adaptations and effective support
• Clear behaviour routines established from Nursery and reinforced throughout the school
• Outstanding personal development programme that develops character, independence and responsibility
• Effective governance and trust oversight that hold the school to account
• Staff value high-quality professional development and leaders' consideration of workload and well-being
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, the key learning and sticky knowledge pupils need is not identified consistently
• Teachers sometimes give pupils work that does not match the intended learning
• Some teaching approaches are not applied consistently across the school
• Teachers do not always check pupils' understanding well enough or adjust their teaching accordingly
• In a small number of subjects, the curriculum has not yet been refined so teachers are clear what pupils need to know and remember

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 Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School attended 96.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.9% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Fradley Park 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 Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School had 17.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 23.1% 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, 12.0% of pupils at Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 0.0% 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 Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School received £7,494 and spent £7,380 for each of its 120 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £74,000 (£618 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 Lichfield · Staffordshire local authority: places and applications

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

• All Saints Church of England Primary and Nursery School Burton-On-Trent
• Whittington Primary and Nursery School Lichfield
• Yoxall St Peter's CofE Primary School Burton-On-Trent
• John Taylor High School Burton-On-Trent
• Thomas Russell Infants School Burton-On-Trent
• Walton On Trent CofE Primary and Nursery School Swadlincote
• Rugeley John Taylor Rugeley
• All Saints CofE (C) Primary School Burton-On-Trent
• Chase Terrace Academy Burntwood
• John Taylor Free School Burton-On-Trent

What is Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School is Good, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School last inspected by Ofsted?

Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School have?

Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School has 133 pupils on roll.

What age range does Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School cover?

Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

Where is Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School?

Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School is at Murphy Street, Fradley, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 8TW.