Ofsted
Please find below our last three OFSTED reports, starting with our most recent one in February 2025. Here's an extract:
| Oldfield Park Junior School has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection. |
| What is it like to attend this school? |
| Pupils thrive in this safe, friendly school. They know that any worries will be dealt with quickly by a trusted adult. Parents and carers value the caring community the school engenders. They rightly say their children love going to school. Pupils are kind and enjoy positive relationships with each other and the staff.
Pupils have a thirst for knowledge and strive to achieve the ‘Learning Hero’ award each term. They are focused on their learning and keen to contribute. This is because teachers expect them to engage and work cooperatively. Support, such as sentence stems, ensures every pupil can speak with confidence. Pupils achieve well and, by year 6, are ready for the demands of secondary school.
Responsibilities such as being librarians, play leaders and school councillors are some ways pupils support others in the school. Play is an important part of the school’s ethos. Pupils learn to take safe risks, such as building a trolley cart to drive on the playground or climbing trees. The annual ‘playday’ is a highlight for staff, pupils and parents. The ‘Palladian Promise’ provides opportunities to broaden pupils’ horizons. For example, pupils experience other cultures and traditions through residential visits to Holland and France. |
