Rowlands Castle St John's Church of England Controlled Primary School Ofsted Report

Full report

What does the school need to do to improve further?

• Improve leadership by:
  • ensuring that governors have the detailed information they need to systematically challenge and support school leaders and hold them to account for securing improvements to teaching and pupil outcomes
  • developing the role of subject leaders to identify priorities and lead improvements to teaching and learning in the subjects they lead.
• Improve teaching and learning by:
  • making certain that work provided for pupils is closely matched to their ability and provides sufficient challenge, particularly for the most able pupils
  • ensuring that teachers are focused on increasing the proportion of pupils reaching the highest levels of attainment
  • ensuring that learning support assistants have a consistently positive impact on pupils’ learning.

Inspection judgements

Effectiveness of leadership and management Good

Governance of the school

Safeguarding

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good

Personal development and welfare

• The school's work to promote pupils' personal development and welfare is good.
• Pupils are confident and take pride in their work, their school and their appearance. They like the buddy system and it is evident that this supports pupils’ welfare. It is cohesive and pupils care about each other. Pupils are punctual and ready to learn at the start of lessons.
• There is a clear culture of ensuring that pupils are safe. Pupils feel safe and say they want to come to school and parents agree. Parents comment that pupils are happy, well settled and look forward to coming to school.
• Attendance has improved and the school has robust procedures in place so that any pupil absences are followed up promptly. The school works closely with parents and carers to support all pupils to attend school regularly.
• Pupils say bullying does not happen but they feel it would be dealt with promptly if it did. The school provides regular education on bullying, for example through a recent anti-bullying week.
• The school’s culture is distinctively warm and positive. Relationships are very strong, underpinned by the school’s Christian values, which are evident everywhere.
• All pupils are involved in agreeing their own class charter of rules at the beginning of each year. They also have a voice through the class representatives who are elected to the school council.

Behaviour

Outcomes for pupils Good

Early years provision Outstanding

School details

Unique reference number Local authority Inspection number 116310 Hampshire 10019875 This inspection of the school was carried out under section 5 of the Education Act 2005. Type of school Primary School category Age range of pupils Gender of pupils Voluntary controlled 4 to 11 Mixed Number of pupils on the school roll 211 Appropriate authority The governing body Chair Headteacher Telephone number Website Email address Reverend Trevor Filtness Kay Pennicotte-Henrie 02392 412 095 www.rowlandscastle-st-johns.hants.sch.uk headteacher@rowlandscastle-st-johns.hants.sch.uk Date of previous inspection 15–16 October 2014

Information about this school

• The school meets requirements on the publication of specified information on its website.
• The school is smaller than the average-sized primary school.
• The great majority of pupils are from White British backgrounds.
• The proportion of pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities is lower than the national average overall, but broadly average for SEN support. There are no pupils with an education, health and care plan or statement of special educational needs.
• The proportion of pupils eligible for support through the pupil premium is well below average.
• The school meets the current floor standards, which set out the minimum expectations for pupils’ attainment and progress by the end of Year 6.
• The school offers extended school provision. This includes both care for pupils who arrive at school early and for those who need to stay late. A range of chargeable clubs and activities can be accessed as part of this provision.
• There is a private pre-school on site. This is not managed by the school and is inspected separately.
• There have been two monitoring inspection visits since the previous inspection.

Information about this inspection

• Inspectors visited all classes to gather evidence about what teaching and learning are like typically. They spent time observing lessons and watched an assembly. They looked at a range of pupils’ work and displays throughout the school; they heard a sample of pupils read; they talked to pupils; and they discussed with leaders what they had seen. Some of the observations were conducted jointly with senior leaders from the school.
• Inspectors observed behaviour around the school at breaktimes and lunchtimes.
• The inspection team met with pupils, staff, leaders and members of the governing body to discuss the school’s work. Inspectors also spoke informally to a range of staff to gather their views.
• Inspectors analysed 57 responses to the Ofsted’s online questionnaire, Parent View, and took account of 27 questionnaires returned by staff.
• Inspectors sampled other aspects of the school’s work, including leaders’ own records of the school’s effectiveness, and scrutinised safeguarding arrangements.

Inspection team

Stephanie Fane, lead inspector Kate Redman

Ofsted Inspector Ofsted Inspector