OFSTED recently published their inspection report for Pocklington Infants and it’s a bit disappointing.

In November 2017 the school was judged to be good across the board but it now requires improvement in 4 key areas.

• The quality of education – Requires improvement
• Personal development – Requires improvement
• Leadership and management – Requires improvement
• Early years provision – Requires improvement
• Behaviour and attitudes – Good

The report is pretty hard hitting about leadership stating:

• Leaders do not carry out thorough enough checks to see how well the curriculum is being taught.
• Leaders have not established effective assessment systems to check what pupils know and remember.
• The curriculum in the early years does not precisely identify the knowledge and skills children will learn.
• Leaders have not provided pupils with a wide range of opportunities to develop their talents and interest.
• On the positive side it is recognised that:
• Pupils enjoy coming to school and feel safe. They are polite and behave well.
• Pupils have positive attitudes to learning and are respectful of each other.
• Leaders have ensured that reading is a priority.
• Children learn to read as soon as they start in Reception Year.
• Leaders have carefully considered their approach to the teaching of reading. Staff receive regular training to deliver the school’s phonics programme effectively.
• Leaders carry out regular checks to see how well pupils are doing.
• Pupils receive extra help if they start to fall behind.
• Although many subject leaders are new to their roles, they are passionate about their subjects and have ambition for all pupils to achieve well.
• The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

The school is not part of the Wolds Learning Partnership.
View the full report here: https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50211142