DORRIDGE Junior school
“requires improvement” Ofsted has said after inspectors raised concerns about
results and quality of teaching.
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A June inspection rates it as
“requires improvement” on a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement
and inadequate.
Its previous inspection, in
2010, rated it satisfactory on a scale of outstanding, good satisfactory and
inadequate.
The latest report says pupils
“make nationally expected, but not good, progress because not all teachers
routinely make sure tasks match pupils’ different abilities”.
Standards remain high in
reading, writing and maths and had improved, especially in maths, it said.
Marking is of high standard, it said.
Yet teachers “do not usually
give pupils work that makes them think more deeply or learn more quickly
throughout lessons”.
It said: “Teachers often give
the same tasks to all pupils, regardless of their ability. Some find the work
too easy, such as in a times-table exercise where more-able pupils quickly
finished and had to wait for the others to catch up.”
The report adds: “Teachers do
not always plan work which challenges the more-able pupils.”
The approach to determining
if pupils have special educations needs are “not applied consistently or
accurately” the report adds.
Leadership and management
must improve as “expectations and actions of leaders and managers, including
governors, have not brought about significant improvement in the quality of
teaching and progress made by pupils”.
Management evaluations of
school performance has been “generous” but had changed and changes to marking
in January had had a “positive impact”.
The report went on: “Leaders
do not make full use of the information that the school holds on pupils’
progress to best check the effectiveness of teaching and its impact on
achievement.”
But it said: “Behaviour in
lessons is good and around school is usually exemplary.”
Progress had “accelerated”
since January, it added.
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