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Kings Cliffe Endowed Primary School rated 'Good' by Ofsted inspectors




Polite pupils and a positive attitude to learning impressed inspectors who recently visited a village school.

Ofsted inspectors rated King's Cliffe Endowed Primary School as good across the board following a two-day visit late last year.

The inspection team found the majority of pupils to have well-rounded understanding of respect, although they also reported ‘a very small number of pupils do not show tolerance, have a limited understanding of British values and do not know what behaviour is right’.

Ofsted (25834718)
Ofsted (25834718)

The report noted that ‘leaders have not always taken incidents of derogatory language seriously enough’.

A themed curriculum approach was praised for helping to ‘bring learning to life and to be meaningful for pupils’.

The report said: “Leaders have made sure that pupils learn about a broad range of subjects. In most subjects, teachers build pupils’ knowledge to help them remember more.”

By doing this they have high expectations of what pupils can achieve.

However, the expectation of Reception children is sometimes not high enough and they show they can do more than adults expect of them, meaning ‘some are not able to get off to a flying start’.

The report notes that the order in which pupils learn new things is better in some subjects than others; sometimes the learning is not always sequenced enough to build on what pupils have been taught previously.

An ‘effective’ safeguarding system is in place and leaders have made sure that all staff, volunteers and governors understand how to keep children safe.

However, inspectors found that some safeguarding records were not well organised or maintained and that governors had not checked that procedures are effective.

Leaders acted to rectify both of these issues before the inspectors completed their two-day inspection of the school.

The school was rated 'Good' overall.

The most recent inspection before that took place in November 2018 when the school was also rated as good overall.

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