You may read the Full Reports here on Ofsted's website     

but here are a few of the highlights. 

 

In our latest report (February 2007), our Ofsted inspector found that:

 

Polesden Lacey Infant School (South Bookham School at time of report) is a good school with several outstanding features.

 

Excellent behaviour and very positive attitudes to learning contribute to pupils' success in school. They enjoy lessons and the opportunities offered through an outstanding, very well enriched curriculum.

 

Work is challenging and well matched to individual ability

 

Standards overall are exceptionally high and achievement is good.

 

By the end of Year 2 are well above average in mathematics and generally exceptionally high in reading and writing.

 

Pupils' personal development and well-being are outstanding.

 

They are confident, polite and extremely well behaved. Pupils thoroughly enjoy coming to school

 

Teaching and learning are good. Outstanding relationships encourage pupils and they are eager to learn.

 

Lessons are planned well, taking good account of pupils' previous learning.

 

The curriculum is outstanding. Work is very well planned for different abilities, with particularly good provision for those with learning difficulties and those who are more able.

 

Our earlier Ofsted inspection report (April 2002) also praised our school's many strengths:

 

The Ofsted team found that South Bookham School (Now Polesden Lacey Infant School) offers a broad, secure curriculum  that gives pupils very good opportunities to pursue learning at length and depth, learn through practical experience and to make links between subjects .

 

 It observed that teaching does not seek a quick route to high test results through spoon-feeding knowledge  and commended the school as being particularly successful in challenging pupils to think for themselves .

 

Particular strengths in teaching include: very warm and respectful relationships between staff and pupils, very effective use of resources, very good use of learning support staff, high expectations of pupils to think for themselves, very good promotion of subject specific language and very good understanding of the needs of young children enabling them to make a confident beginning to their education. 

 South Bookham Infants (Now Polesden Lacey Infant School) is an effective school, the inspection team concluded, and it offered plenty of evidence to support this assertion. 

 

The school has a strong philosophy of the entitlement of young children to warm relationships which make them feel secure.  

 

The school culture and strategies to promote educational inclusiveness enable pupils of all abilities to be successful.

 

South Bookham School (Now Polesden Lacey Infant School) can be justifiably pleased  with its exemplary induction procedures .

 

The Foundation Stage curriculum covers all six recommended areas of learning very effectively.

By Year 2, pupils are confident and articulate speakers and all pupils are reading at the required level, with a significant number who are working above . Boys achieve as well as girls in marked contrast to the national picture .

 

The schools results for mathematics show the proportion of pupils reaching higher levels is particularly high.

 

Pupils benefit from a truly scientific education in which pupils understanding of the scientific process is developed impressively well.

  

Standards are above expectation in information and communication technology and reflect the praiseworthy efforts the staff and governors have made to resource and apply the subject across the curriculum.

 

The above average standards in art and design reflect the regularity and breadth of experience the pupils enjoy.

 

A specialist musician provides the music teaching... pupils play instruments correctly, develop a good musical vocabulary and most importantly a love of the subject.

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