The full version of our OFSTED report can be found on this link

Holme Valley was inspected on the 23rd - 24th September 2008

Mrs Moorhouse sharing the report with a group of children.

Text from letter to pupils explaining the findings of the inspection

25 September 2008

Dear Pupils

Inspection of Holme Valley Primary School, North Lincolnshire, DN16 3SL

Thank you all so much for making my colleagues and me feel very welcome when we inspected your school recently. We were there to find out how well you are all learning. We talked to many of you during the two days we were at Holme Valley and you were keen to tell us all about your school. This letter is to tell you about the main things that we found.

We talked to teachers, looked at your work and at your recent assessments we could see that most of you are now making good progress and that yours is a good school.

You are all very well behaved and extremely good at welcoming new pupils into your school. This is a very good thing because you regularly get new pupils joining and you help them to settle very quickly. You are all very well cared for and those of you who need extra care or extra help with your work get it and this helps you to make good progress.

The youngest pupils are very well cared for. They get lots of help with their work and get off to a sound start with their learning, but they do not always do as well as they could in their mathematical development and we have asked their teachers to improve this.

The headteacher, staff and governors are determined that you will get the very best possible education. We have identified some ways in which they can make things even better for you. We have asked them to help more pupils to reach higher levels by the time they leave Year 2, especially in writing. We have asked them to make sure that some of the teaching is made even better.

I know that you will want to do your bit to help. You can do this by continuing to work very hard and behave well, which I know you can do.

Yours sincerely

Amraz Ali

Her Majesty's Inspector