1 April 2008

Dear Pupils

Inspection of Wessex Primary School, Maidenhead, SL6 3AT

Thank you very much for your friendly welcome when my colleagues and I recently visited your school. We enjoyed our time at Wessex and were particularly pleased that you wanted to share your views with the inspectors.

We agree with you that Wessex is a good school. You work hard and your behaviour in lessons and around the school is outstanding. Children in the Nursery and Reception classes get an excellent start to their time in school. The positive attitudes you all display to work and learning as you get older began here. Your teachers take excellent care of you and often make lessons interesting and fun. As a result you make good progress. We were particularly pleased to see that you are learning your phonics and noticed that your results in reading and writing are improving, especially the boys!

The school council does a good job in sharing your views with the staff and we like the way that peer mentors are helping you all to get on well with each other. You have an excellent variety of clubs and activities to choose from each week. We were pleased to see so many of you getting involved and making choices that will help you stay fit and healthy.

There are three things we have asked the teachers to do to make Wessex even better.

• Always tell you how you can improve your work. (You can help with this by listening to what the teachers say about your work and making sure you correct your work when they mark it.)
• Develop more projects such as 'Enterprise Week' to make your learning even more exciting than it already is.
• Keep track of your progress to make sure that work set in lessons helps you learn as quickly as possible.

Yours sincerely

Hugh Protherough

Lead Inspector