A SCHOOL has been told to make improvements by Ofsted inspectors.

Inspectors have told Benjamin Hargreaves CofE Primary in Accrington, that teaching, achievement and leadership, among other things, needed work.

Assessing the Barnfield Street school, inspectors said pupils made ‘uneven progress’.

Teaching was said to require improvement as inconsistencies led to variable rates of progress, particularly in reading.

In a report inspector Liam Tripper said: “In some lessons, teachers do not make the best use of time or check pupils’ learning to offer help or make tasks harder. As a result, pupils do not make enough progress.

“In lessons that require improvement pupils make only adequate progress. Teachers do not always check pupils are learning quickly and some tasks are not hard enough and so do not fully meet pupils’ needs. ”

Inspectors also criticised the school’s website as being out of date and not providing parents and the general public with required information.

Inspectors also said leadership and management required improvement.

Mr Tripper said: “Leaders’ plans are not sufficiently focussed on quickly raising pupils’ achievement or time limited to bring about rapid changes in the quality of teaching. “The new subject leaders have not had opportunities to check the quality of teaching for themselves to bring about improvements.”

The school was said to have some key strengths, such as raising attainment in mathematics above average. Early years teaching was said to be good, as was pupils’ behaviour.

Headteacher Julie Nicol said: “The inspectors and the governors know that the school has the capacity to continue to improve. We are confident the measures already put in place and those still to be implemented will impact further on pupil progress and attainment.”