• It is part of the school’s aims to keep fees low.

• The school aims to ‘create a happy environment in which each individual is encouraged to want to learn and to develop his or her own personality’…so that ‘children gain confidence in their own ability and achieve their full potential’ and ‘each child grows to realise the importance of good manners, courtesy and consideration for others, ensuring that they will become responsible members of society’.

• Redehall is successful in achieving its aims and has many good features.

• Pupils make good progress and reach high standards in their work.

• They love being at school and have a huge sense of pride in both their work and school

• The curriculum, supported by good teaching, meets pupils’ needs and prepares them effectively for the next stage of their education.

• What the school does well:
  • it values pupils as individuals and fosters very good relationships;
  • it encourages pupils to develop good learning habits from an early age;
  • it helps pupils to develop into mature and responsible young people;
  • it encourages exemplary behaviour by its pupils;
  • its teachers have high expectations that pupils will work hard; and
  • it ensures that pupils achieve high standards in English, Mathematics and Science

• The teaching at Redehall has many good features which ensure that pupils make good progress.

• Teachers have high expectations of pupils’ behaviour and work. As a result, they have high expectations of themselves, and they work hard and achieve well.

• Good learning habits are established from an early age when the groundwork for reading and writing, and for completing homework, is laid.

• Teachers’ planning is satisfactory. It includes examples of good practice where teachers identify clearly what pupils are expected to learn and how tasks may be varied for pupils who learn at different rates

• As experienced staff, they respond intuitively to the different needs of their pupils. They know their strengths and weaknesses and give them very good individual attention and support.

• The school makes good use of specialist staff who teach music, French and PE.

• The school makes good provision for the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of the pupils.

Ofsted Report July 2008

• Curricular provision is satisfactory with some strong features

• Pupils make good progress throughout the school and their behaviour is outstanding.

• Pupils get off to a good start in the Foundation Stage.

• skills for independent learning are developed effectively through well organised lessons

• good teaching is typified by well planned lessons which match the different learning needs of all pupils.

• There are opportunities for pupils to gain hands on experience and they are encouraged to discuss their learning with each other and ask questions.

• A result of this good progress is that most pupils attain at least above average results in the national tests at the end of Years 2 and 6

• The provision for pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is good.

• Pupils’ behaviour is outstanding

• They are open and friendly to each other and to staff and other adults.

• Pupils have a well developed sense of right and wrong.

• Pupils are well prepared for their future economic well-being because of their highly developed interpersonal skills and above average skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT.

• Pupils make a very positive contribution to the community

• Children are looked after well

• Pupils feel very safe in school and feel comfortable in approaching staff if they are worried.

• The main building has undergone extensive refurbishment and extension since the last inspection. This has provided the school with some modern classrooms and a purpose built ICT suite.

• The school provides suitable up-to-date information for parents, prospective parents and others in the prospectus and website