Waterthorpe Infant School, Sheffield
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Overall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
The school is genuinely inclusive and welcoming, particularly for children with additional needs who receive dedicated, personalised support. Staff build strong relationships with pupils, helping them feel safe, secure and valued. The school provides an ambitious curriculum with excellent phonics teaching and strong personal development education that helps children understand responsibility, kindness and how to stay safe.
Key Strengths
- Exceptional support for pupils with SEND both in mainstream classrooms and in specialist provision (The Rainbow Room)
- Strong relationships between staff and pupils with a distinctly nurturing and inclusive school culture
- Well-designed early reading curriculum with consistent phonics teaching across the school
- Strong behaviour management with effective routines and emotional support for pupils
- Excellent teaching of religious education with pupils remembering learning exceptionally well
Areas for Improvement
- Some pupils do not attend school regularly enough or arrive late, missing important learning
- In subjects like design and technology, teachers do not check pupils' understanding precisely enough, affecting how well learning builds on prior knowledge
- Basic errors in mathematics are not always identified and corrected quickly enough, causing pupils to repeat mistakes
- Pupils struggle to retain and remember key knowledge over time in some subjects
Safeguarding
Safeguarding arrangements are effective with the school maintaining an open and positive culture around pupil safety.
Extracurricular Activities
Cooking club, football club, science club, school council, healthy mind champions programme
Waterthorpe Infant School is a highly inclusive school with a nurturing ethos where pupils feel safe and secure. Leaders maintain high expectations for all pupils, including those with special educational needs, and the school offers an ambitious, well-adapted curriculum.
At a Glance
27.0%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Class Sizes
29.4
Avg class size
5
Total classes
1 class with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
68%
Available places
123 pupils
180 capacity
57 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Sheffield
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Sheffield
Admissions Demand - Sheffield
Places available
6,786
Applications
5,374
Got 1st preference
96.9%
Got preferred school
99.6%
Primary admissions across Sheffield (2025/26)
Inspection History(105)
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SEN Provision
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Pupil Demographics
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Pupil Absence2024/25
9.25491%
Overall absence
28.08989%
Persistent absence
89
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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