Setting

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Ms M Gay Acting Headteacher Limbrick Primary School Bush Close Tile Hill Coventry CV4 9QT

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education (PSHE)

Thank you for your hospitality and cooperation, and that of your staff, during my visit on 08 July 2009 to look at work in PSHE.

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education (PSHE)

The visit provided valuable information which will contribute to our national evaluation and reporting. Published reports are likely to list the names of the contributing institutions, but individual institutions will not be identified in the main text without their consent.

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education (PSHE)

The evidence used to inform the judgements made included: discussions with you, the acting deputy head teacher, the local authority representative for PSHE and groups of pupils, observation of three lessons and scrutiny of schemes of work.

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Features of good practice observed

 The outstanding development of pupils’ social and emotional skills, particularly their ability to understand and constructively reflect on their feelings.  Pupil’s emerging understanding of the concepts of belonging and fairness and sense of justice. As one pupil remarked, “everyone is welcome in this school no matter what colour you are”.  Outstanding relationships between teachers and pupils. Teachers treat pupils with respect and value their opinions and this is then reflected in how pupils behave towards each other.  Teachers are not afraid to tackle sensitive issues and raise challenging questions.  Teachers use a wide range of resources and methodology very effectively to engage the interest of pupils and make learning relevant.  The PSHE curriculum which includes well planned lessons on emotional literacy and covers homophobic bullying.

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Areas for development include:

 extending the concept of belonging from the school to the wider community and ensuring challenge for all areas of discrimination.

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Areas for development include:

I hope these observations are useful as you continue to develop PSHE in the school.

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Areas for development include:

As I explained previously, a copy of this letter will be sent to your local authority and will be published on Ofsted’s website. It will also be available to the team for your next institutional inspection.

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