Chase Bridge Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this school?

Chase Bridge Primary School provides an exceptional education. Pupils work together to fulfil the school's vision to 'be ready, be safe, be respectful'.

Pupils demonstrate excellent behaviour and delight in supporting each other. This means pupils are part of an inclusive, warm and friendly school community.

Pupils benefit from the extensive personal development offer.

All pupils have access to extra-curricular opportunities, including chess, basketball, coding and magic club. There is also a wide music offer, including three school choirs and an orchestra of 50 pupils. Pupils are encouraged to share their talents through school performances as well as in the... local community, for example at residential care homes.

Pupils have opportunities to develop their strength of character through different roles linked to each year group so they can lead and serve others in the school as ambassadors, captains and members of the pupil parliament and school council. The school hosts a mental health charity on the school grounds. This means pupils and staff have access to a network of well-being support.

Alongside the school's ambitions for pupils' personal achievements, it is committed to supporting their academic development. Pupils work hard, and their successes are seen in the strong outcomes they achieve across the curriculum, including in national assessments.

What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?

Pupils benefit from a broad and ambitious curriculum.

In music, this goes beyond the norm, and all pupils in Year 3 can learn a stringed instrument. Starting in early years, leaders have set out what pupils need to know and do in subject 'road maps'. This supports pupils to build their learning sequentially.

Teachers are alert to gaps and meet regularly to consider misconceptions and how to address these in their year group and curriculum teams.

Reading is a top priority. Children start learning to read swiftly in their Reception Year.

Staff are trained effectively to teach the phonics curriculum. Checks on pupils' learning are used well to track who needs more support in 'keep up' groups. Pupils read books matched closely to the sounds that they know.

As a result, they learn to read accurately and fluently. Staff work with parents and carers to guide how to read with and to their children at home. Leaders have thought carefully about the wider reading curriculum to ensure pupils study new texts as well as beloved classics.

Further up in the school, books are chosen to help enhance pupils' learning in each subject. This supports them in deepening their understanding across the curriculum.

Children in early years are happy, secure and curious learners.

Staff create a language-rich and enabling environment which helps children to develop their communication skills. The emphasis on songs, rhymes and routines also supports children to settle in quickly and enjoy their learning. Leaders have considered how children can benefit from rich opportunities that take them beyond the everyday.

For example, when learning about the life cycle of a hen, children hosted chicks in their classroom to help them understand what animals need to survive. This also supported children in developing their early scientific vocabulary, as well as their empathy skills in handling the chicks with care.

Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are quickly identified.

Staff are suitably trained to make appropriate adaptations to their teaching. All pupils learn about the needs of others through the programme of personal development at the school. This means that pupils with SEND learn in a welcoming school environment.

Pupils behave excellently. A calm learning environment prevails in lessons because of well-established routines. Incidents of bullying are extremely rare.

If they should occur, pupils are confident to talk with staff and know they would be listened to and their concerns taken seriously. Pupils are passionate about their school 'houses', Griffin, Dragon, Phoenix, Unicorn, and being able to wear their house colours if they work hard and attend well.

Pupils' wider personal development is excellent.

The programme is designed so pupils return to key ideas across the curriculum. For example, pupils learn about democracy in their study of the Greeks and Romans and consider what this looks like in modern society. The school has thought carefully about the needs of its pupils and developed initiatives that respond to emerging challenges in the community.

Staff are rightly proud to work at Chase Bridge. Teachers, including those at the early stages of their careers, receive high-quality professional development and coaching. This means pupils benefit from precise teaching.

Those responsible for governance fulfil their duties and share leaders' high ambitions. As a result, all pupils receive excellent provision and achieve highly.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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