OAKFIELD Primary School, in Ryde, was found to require improvement in its latest Ofsted inspection.

While its early years provision and the personal development, behaviour and welfare was found to be good, all other areas were not as strong.

Areas requiring improvement were the overall effectiveness, the effectiveness of leadership and management, the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, and the outcomes for pupils.

Inspectors found that since the last inspection, governors and leaders had not acted swiftly enough to improve the school.

Recent changes had not had time to improve the quality of teaching and the progress that pupils make.

Progress and standards in reading, writing and mathematics was not consistently good in Key Stage 1, and neither was the progress of the most-able pupils, across the school.

Teaching, learning and assessment was not consistently good. Too few pupils write as well as they should, with pupils making significantly less progress in writing than the national average in 2017.

A new system for tracking pupils' progress more precisely was not fully established.

Among the school's strengths was that children are well cared for in reception classes. They settle in quickly and make good progress. Teaching is good in early years.

Leaders and staff were found to be united in their aim to strengthen the progress of pupils of all abilities, including the most able and disadvantaged.

Pupils were well looked after, happy, felt safe and enjoyed school.

Leaders' actions have improved pupils' outcomes in mathematics and reading by the time they reach Year 6.

The curriculum caters well for pupils' interests, and pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is good.