Robert Kett Primary School

Robert Kett Primary School is a large primary school that meets expected standards across all inspected areas, with safeguarding standards met. Since its previous inspection, the school has joined Unity Schools Partnership Trust, and leaders have successfully addressed earlier improvement points, particularly by developing a well-sequenced and ambitious curriculum. Provision is inclusive, and pupils, including those with SEND and disadvantaged pupils, are generally well supported to access learning and progress from their starting points. Early years provision, personal development, pastoral care and staff training are notable strengths.

Strengths

• Inclusive and welcoming school environment where pupils feel safe and ready to learn.
• Well-structured, ambitious and broad curriculum with clear sequences and small steps.
• Strong early years provision where children achieve well and are prepared for Year 1.
• Effective phonics teaching with reading books matched to pupils' learned sounds.
• Quick extra support for pupils who fall behind in reading.
• Good support for pupils with SEND so they access the curriculum successfully.
• Positive relationships and typically positive pupil behaviour and conduct.
• Prompt and appropriate response to bullying concerns, with restorative conversations used.
• Close attendance monitoring and early help that has reduced persistent absence.
• Effective personal development programme covering safety, wellbeing, relationships and British values.
• Strong pastoral support that is responsive to pupils' needs.
• High-quality professional development and a positive staff culture.
• Clear trust and governance oversight, with appropriate support and challenge.
• Leaders have an accurate understanding of the school and successfully addressed previous areas for improvement.

Areas for Improvement

• Disadvantaged pupils' attainment is well below national averages in reading, writing and mathematics.
• Large disadvantage gaps persist across key stage 2 outcomes.
• Mathematics outcomes at key stage 2 were below the national average in 2024/25.
• Overall absence remains above the national average.
• Leaders need to secure sustained high attendance, particularly for disadvantaged pupils.
• Some pupils do not consistently follow the school's rules.
• Suspensions have been above the national average, although they have reduced over time.
• Teachers sometimes do not use assessment information precisely enough to adapt activities promptly.
• In some subjects, work is not always adapted well enough, which slows learning for some pupils.
• Middle leaders need further support to develop expertise in monitoring provision and improving outcomes.
• There was a slight dip in Year 1 phonics screening check outcomes in 2025, although targeted support helped pupils catch up.

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 Robert Kett Primary School attended 93.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 13.6% 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, 2.9% of pupils at Robert Kett Primary 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 Robert Kett Primary School had 21.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 17.4% 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, 10.6% of pupils at Robert Kett Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.0% 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 Robert Kett Primary School received £6,714 and spent £7,139 for each of its 558 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £170,000 (£305 per pupil).

Across all 39 schools of Unity Schools Partnership, income was £8,494 and spending £8,500 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 Wymondham · Norfolk local authority: places and applications

Robert Kett Primary School is part of Unity Schools Partnership, which runs 40 schools. The nearest others:

• Silfield Oak Primary Academy Wymondham
• Colman Junior School Norwich
• Valley Primary Academy Norwich
• Colman Infant School Norwich
• Henderson Green Primary Academy Norwich
• Heartsease Primary Academy Norwich
• Lingwood Primary Academy Lingwood
• Breckland School Brandon
• Sir Peter Hall School Bury St. Edmunds
• Abbots Green Primary Academy Bury St Edmunds

What is Robert Kett Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Robert Kett Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in July 2026.

When was Robert Kett Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Robert Kett Primary School was last inspected in July 2026.

How many pupils does Robert Kett Primary School have?

Robert Kett Primary School has 502 pupils on roll.

What age range does Robert Kett Primary School cover?

Robert Kett Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Robert Kett Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 62% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Robert Kett Primary School?

Robert Kett Primary School is at Hewitts Lane, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 0LS.