Summary of Key Findings for Parents and Pupils:

• The Headteacher, senior leaders and governors have an accurate picture of the school's strengths and areas for improvement.  The actions they have taken this year have improved teaching and the progress pupils make.

• Good teaching is the norm at the school.  The teaching of reading has improved as a result of well-chosen staff training.

• Across the school, all groups of pupils, regardless of ability or background, make good progress and achieve well in reading, writing and mathematics.

• Pupils have made particularly rapid progress in reading this year.

• Staff morale is high and they work well as a team to secure improvement.

• Additional adults give good support to pupils who need it.  The school is a welcoming community where everyone is valued.

• Pupils behave well.  They are polite and well-mannered.  They feel safe in school and know who to turn to if they have a problem.

• The school promotes pupil's spiritual, moral, social and cultural development well.  They develop positive attitudes to learning and strive to achieve the school's aim to be a "Brilliant Barwell Infant" and "the best that we can be".

• The school has the confidence of the parents and carers, who consider staff to be caring and approachable.

It is not yet an outstanding school because...

• The range of punctuation and vocabulary used by pupils in their writing is often limited, and they have too few opportunities to solve mathematical problems.

• Teachers' marking does not give pupils clear information about how to improve their work.

• Occasionally, pupils' learning slows in lessons when the time allowed for activities is too long or too short.

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