Broke Hall Community Primary School

Inspection of Broke Hall Community Primary School Chatsworth Drive, Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 5XD

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Overall effectiveness Good

The quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years provision Good Previous inspection grade Not previously inspected under section 5 of the Education Act 2005 13 and 14 June 2023

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What is it like to attend this school?

Pupils enjoy coming to school. They are taught to be ‘ready, respectful and safe’. They know what bullying is and that it happens very rarely at their school. Pupils feel safe. They trust adults to help them if they are worried about something.

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What is it like to attend this school?

At playtimes and lunchtimes, pupils play well together and are kind and polite to each other. Older pupils enjoy helping the younger ones to play games. During lessons, pupils listen carefully to each other and work well with others.

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What is it like to attend this school?

Pupils enjoy learning a broad range of subjects. They almost always try to do their best. Pupils achieve well and can talk confidently about their learning. They value taking part in trips and visits that enhance their learning.

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What is it like to attend this school?

Pupils get opportunities to develop their interests and to try new things. Everyone has the chance to learn how to play a different musical instrument each year, for example. Older pupils enjoy having extra responsibilities, such as being a school councillor, a junior road safety officer or a member of the eco-council. Pupils say that they make a real difference by helping to raise money for new equipment, developing the school garden or highlighting road safety to younger pupils.

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better?

Leaders have developed an ambitious and well-planned curriculum for Year 1 to Year 6. This sets out clearly, in all subjects, the knowledge that pupils need to learn. However, the early years curriculum is not so well planned out. This means that in some subjects the curriculum does not build from Nursery to make sure that pupils are consistently well prepared for all aspects of learning in Year 1.

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better?

In most subjects, such as mathematics, teachers regularly check carefully what pupils know and can do. Teachers use these checks to help plan future learning. In some other subjects, teachers check what pupils know at the beginning and end of a topic. These checks are not always effective in identifying whether pupils have remembered the important knowledge that leaders intended. Leaders are not using this information to check that the curriculum is being taught as they intend. Consequently, pupils do not achieve as well in these subjects.

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better?

Staff have strong subject knowledge. This means that they can support all pupils, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), to access the same curriculum and make progress. The needs of pupils with SEND are quickly identified and appropriate support is given to them. This ensures that pupils with SEND have the same opportunities to learn and make similar progress to their classmates.

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Leaders have recently introduced a new phonics programme. Staff have had training and deliver this programme with confidence and clear subject knowledge. Children in early years make a strong start to learning to read. In Nursery, children learn 13 and 14 June 2023

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sounds and how to blend these together to make words. In Reception, they learn to read and write simple sentences. Books are carefully matched to the sounds that the pupils are learning so that by the end of Year 2, pupils have the skills and knowledge needed to be confident readers. Pupils who need extra help with reading get the support they need to make sure that they catch up quickly. Leaders have developed a carefully chosen selection of books that teachers use during daily group reading sessions. Pupils find these books interesting. This helps pupils to develop a love of reading and to read different types of books.

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Pupils want to do well and rise to staff’s high expectations. Leaders have created a culture where there are positive relationships and everyone supports each other. In lessons, pupils are attentive and usually concentrate on their work, which means that little learning time is lost.

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Leaders provide a wide range of opportunities for pupils’ personal development, through assemblies and the curriculum. Pupils visit other places of worship and are taught to be tolerant of one another. Teachers use ‘sticky questions’ to develop oracy and debating skills linked to assemblies on topics such as respect, democracy and the law.

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Leaders, including those responsible for governance, provide a clear vision and effective training for all staff, including those new to teaching. Most staff say that leaders carefully consider their workload when making decisions and introducing new initiatives.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Leaders ensure that staff receive regular safeguarding training, so they know how to identify and report any concerns that a pupil is at risk of harm. Concerns are acted on quickly. Leaders work together to provide any support that pupils need. This is sorted quickly using school staff and support from outside agencies when necessary.

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Safeguarding

Leaders make sure that all necessary checks are carried out before a new member of staff joins the school to ensure they are suitable to work in school.

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Safeguarding

As a result of carefully planned learning, pupils know how to keep themselves safe online and in the local community.

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(Information for the school and appropriate authority)

 In some of the specific areas of the early years curriculum, such as expressive arts and design, understanding the world and physical development, the key learning for Nursery and Reception classes has not yet been clearly planned out. This means that pupils at the end of Reception are not as well prepared for their 13 and 14 June 2023

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Year 1 curriculum as they should be. Leaders should ensure that they precisely identify the knowledge and skills that children will learn in all areas of learning in the early years.  Assessment is not being used effectively across all foundation subjects. As a result, leaders do not know how well the planned curriculum is helping pupils to learn the intended knowledge and skills in some subjects. Class teachers are not using assessment to identify gaps in learning and inform future planning. Leaders should ensure that assessment in all foundation subjects enables subject leaders to evaluate how well the planned curriculum is being taught and that teachers use it to identify any gaps in pupils’ learning and inform their planning. This should be done in a way that does not add to teachers’ workload.

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How can I feed back my views?

or to find out what other parents and carers think. We use information from Ofsted Parent View when deciding which schools to inspect, when to inspect them and as part of their inspection.

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How can I feed back my views?

The Department for Education has further guidance on how to complain about a school.

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Further information

You can search for published performance information about the school.

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Further information

In the report, ‘disadvantaged pupils’ refers to those pupils who attract government pupil premium funding: pupils claiming free school meals at any point in the last six years and pupils in care or who left care through adoption or another formal route. 13 and 14 June 2023

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School details

Date of previous inspection Not previously inspected

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Information about this school

 The school is part of The Children’s Endeavour Academy Trust, which consists of eight primary schools.  Broke Hall Community Primary School joined the trust in January 2019.  The school does not currently use any alternative provision.  There is an onsite breakfast and after-school club, but this is not managed by the school.

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Information about this inspection

The inspectors carried out this graded inspection under section 5 of the Education Act 2005.

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Information about this inspection

 This was the first routine inspection the school received since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Inspectors discussed the impact of the pandemic with leaders and have taken that into account in their evaluation of the school. 13 and 14 June 2023

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 Broke Hall Community Primary School converted to become an academy school in January 2019. When its predecessor school, Broke Hall Community Primary School, was last inspected by Ofsted, it was judged to be good overall.  The inspectors met with the headteacher, the deputy headteacher, the assistant headteachers, subject leaders, and other leaders and staff across the school.  The inspectors met with the chief executive officer, an executive headteacher within the trust, and two members of the local governing body.  The inspectors carried out deep dives in early reading, mathematics, science, computing, art and design and geography. In each subject, inspectors met with subject leaders, visited lessons, considered curriculum plans, spoke with pupils, looked at pupils’ books and met with class teachers and teaching assistants. The inspectors also observed pupils reading.  To evaluate safeguarding, the inspectors met with the designated safeguarding

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lead (DSL) and the deputy DSLs to discuss the arrangements that are in place to support safeguarding. The inspectors scrutinised the single central record of pre- employment checks and the school’s safeguarding records.  The inspectors reviewed the school’s behaviour records, including records of incidents of bullying and how these are followed up, and records of suspensions.  A range of other information and documents were reviewed by the inspectors, including information available on the school’s website, school policies and information about the curriculum.  The inspectors observed pupils’ behaviour in lessons and at breaktimes.  The inspectors considered the 109 responses to the online survey, Ofsted Parent View, including 69 free-text comments. They took account of the 55 responses to the staff survey. The inspectors spoke with pupils to gather their views on the school. There were no responses to the pupil survey.

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Inspection team

Heather Hann, lead inspector Ofsted Inspector

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Inspection team

Sonia Innes Ofsted Inspector 13 and 14 June 2023

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