A SOUTHAMPTON school has been told it needs to "improve" its quality of learning in a new watchdog report.

Foundry Lane Primary School in Shirley has been rated as "requires improvement" in its most recent Ofsted report published on March 10.

Despite four out of five categories being rated as good, the quality of education was rated as requires improvement, which dropped the overall effectiveness.

Inspectors found that teachers were not effectively checking what pupils knew and could remember in some subjects.

This meant that some pupils have "misconceptions and gaps" in their knowledge that are not addressed.

They also found that content is not yet "sufficiently well planned" to enable pupils to "know more, remember more and be able to do more" in some of the subjects.

The report reads: "Teachers are not always equipped with sufficient information to deliver intended outcomes.

"This means pupils cannot always make links between new knowledge and existing knowledge within and across different subjects.

"Leaders need to review teachers’ subject plans to ensure that the sequence of learning builds on pupils’ prior knowledge more effectively."

The report found that the primary school offers a "caring community" and pupils receive "warm greetings" from teachers each morning. 

It added that classrooms and corridors are calm and orderly, and pupils play well together on the playground.

It found that pupils enjoy attending the school and that children are safe.

Headteacher Sean Taylor said: "As you can see from the report, nearly all sections of our provision were graded as ‘good’. However, our overall grading is ‘requires improvement’.

"We would encourage you to look beyond the headline grades and to read the report fully.

"There are so many positives within the report that show the hard work that has been put in by our whole community in improving provision for our pupils.

"We are especially proud of the strong focus on our pastoral and emotional care and support, our inclusivity and support for pupils with SEND, the behaviour of pupils and the high quality teaching of phonics, maths and reading that were observed during the inspection."