Grampound-With-Creed CofE Primary School

Strengths

• Leaders have established the school at the heart of the community and improved attendance to consistently above national averages.
• Pupils behave well in a calm, respectful and positive environment, and bullying or discriminatory behaviour is rare.
• The curriculum is rich, well sequenced and places a strong focus on vocabulary.
• Teaching is consistently highly effective, with high-quality training, especially in phonics.
• Pupils with SEND benefit from careful adaptations and highly effective inclusion strategies.
• Early years provision is nurturing and stimulating, giving children a highly successful start.
• Staff form highly effective partnerships with parents and carers.
• Leadership and governance are strong, with constructive challenge and effective trust support.
• Personal development is well planned and ambitious, with a wide range of enriching experiences.
• Pastoral care is highly effective, and pupils feel valued and respected.
• Disadvantaged pupils access clubs and additional academic support through effective pupil premium use.
• The school is highly inclusive and supports new pupils to settle quickly and seamlessly.

Areas for Improvement

• Pupils' achievement lags behind the quality of the curriculum and teaching.
• Pupils do not consistently reach the standards they are capable of by the end of Year 6.
• Published outcomes in combined reading, writing and mathematics, and in mathematics alone, have been below national averages in recent years.
• Achievement remains at the expected standard rather than the strong standard seen in other areas.

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