Ofsted
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. Ofsted regulate and inspect schools and colleges to seek improvement in the service. They carry out large number of inspections and regulatory visits in England and publish their finding on their website. We were last inspected in February 2023 and received a rating of GOOD. Inspection of Ofsted-rated GOOD schools usually takes place every four years.
View West Rainton Primary School’s latest Ofsted report.
Department for Education
Many Parents are keen to see how we are performing in relation to other schools.
The Department for Education (DfE) Performance Tables provide a reliable and accessible source of comparative information on pupil attainment and progress, absence, workforce and finance. The Performance Tables include percentages of achievement at expected standards or above in reading, writing and maths and the measure of progress in each subject. You can find the School Performance Tables from the DfE by clicking the link below.
View West Rainton Primary School’s performance tables.
Childcare Provision
West Rainton Primary School offer childcare provision and wraparound care. Full details of the provision provided can be found on our Childcare Provision section of our website.
Pupil and Parent Surveys
We routinely take short snapshot views of pupils and parents through online survey forms and for a range of reasons. Our most recent exit surveys for pupils and parents leaving us in Y6 of 2022 were overwhelmingly positive about safeguarding, behaviour, personal development and curriculum provision.
You can view our assessment (including SATS) results here:
Pupils performed very well in 2024 assessments, across the school. SATS in Year 2 became non-statutory from 2024. In Year 6, our pupils achieved 71% RWM combined compared to national average of 61%.
In Year 1 phonics screening check 12/16 children (75%) reached the required pass mark
In Year 2 phonics screening check resits 5/8 children (63%) reached the required pass mark
In Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) 9/28 (32%) achieved full marks, 16/28 (57%) achieved a score of 20+ out of 25.
Swimming Data 2024
At West Rainton Primary School we take school swimming seriously. We follow Swim England school swimming awards as a way of tracking and accelerating progress in swimming, leading to 94% of Y6 pupils leaving at the required standard in 2024.
As part of our commitment to ensure all children leave us at the required standards, we used some of our PE and Sports Premium funding to provide top-up swimming lessons to our oldest pupils in 2023-24. Pupils in our current years 5 and 6, are now almost caught up because of this top up provision. We aim to continue this for pupils who require it in summer 2025.
Please click the link below to see our current swimming data:
West Rainton Primary School swimming attainment website report Sept 24
Celebrate Our Achievements and Awards
At West Rainton Primary School, we are proud of our achievements and awards. We currently hold Activemark, Artsmark Platinum, Heritage Schools Award, Basic Skills Quality Mark and the AfPE award for sport.
In November 2020, we successfully retained and enhanced our Inclusion Quality Mark Award by becoming a ‘Centre of Excellence’. We were delighted to still demonstrate our strong core ethos of the highest value on every individual pupil during the challenge of the pandemic. You can read the report from our assessors here:
West Rainton Primary School IQM Review report – Oct 2022
We were also an integral part of West Rainton and Leamside becoming Dementia Friendly Community of the Year for 2019 in a national awards ceremony organised by Alzheimers UK.
We are currently working on:
renewing our Artsmark Award
Check School Performance Tables
You can use performance tables (sometimes known as league tables) to compare schools and colleges in your area. You can check:
- exam and test results
- financial information
- Ofsted reports
You can only see statistics for schools and colleges in England.