Making progress says Ofsted
TEACHING has improved at Shepherds Spring Junior School following a monitoring visit from Ofsted but standards are still below national expectation.
The school was placed in special measures last October by Ofsted and was given several recommendations to follow for improvement. Since that initial inspection pupils are beginning to make satisfactory progress in their lessons because of improved teaching, particularly at the top and bottom end of the school.
The school, which is moving into the infant school site after the Easter holidays to make way for a pupil referral unit, has been given two areas to work on before Ofsted's next visit. The school should provide good transition arrangements for all pupils so they have a happy and effective start to their new school. The second area is to ensure the arrangements for the temporary siting in the infant school is handled sensitively so all pupils are comfortable and secure about the change.
Joint activities with the infant school have been planned so pupils get to know the building.
"Pupils' personal development and well-being is satisfactory overall and pupils are being thoughtfully prepared for their future at new schools in the area," said the report. Teaching at the school is satisfactory and workbooks in English and maths indicate pupils make progress over time.
"Teachers' planning indicates that there is better attention given to providing different activities to different ability groups in classes and more challenging tasks are being given to pupils."
Work is marked consistently with helpful comments about how the pupils can improve their work and congratulatory comments when something is done well.
Self-evaluation at the school is more realistic and it recognises where there is work still to do, such as improving the quality of teaching even further.
12:34pm Thursday 27th March 2008
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