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South Kirkby Common Road Infant and Nursery School is a primary school located in Pontefract, Wakefield. The school caters for boys and girls aged 3 to 7 and currently has 202 pupils on roll, with a capacity of 258. The school is led by Mrs DANIELLE EDWARDS.

Key facts

URN: 130864
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 2 to 7
Gender: Mixed
Sixth form: Does not have a sixth form
Nursery: Has Nursery Classes
Local authority: Wakefield
Constituency: Normanton and Hemsworth
Setting: Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Opened: 1996

Governing body (7 current, 1 former)

Maintained school governing body.

Leadership

Name	Role	How appointed	Term
Mrs Janie Theaker	Chair of Governors	Appointed by GB/board	since 2025 · until 2029

Full governing body

Name	Role	How appointed	Term
Ms Stephanie White	Governor	Appointed by GB/board	since 2026 · until 2030
Miss Atkinson Karen	Governor	Elected by school staff	since 2025 · until 2029
Mr Nicholas Kent	Governor	Appointed by GB/board	since 2025 · until 2029
Mr Mark Jefferies	Governor	Appointed by GB/board	since 2025 · until 2029
Mrs Tracey Smiles	Governor	Elected by parents	since 2024 · until 2028
Mrs Danielle Edwards	Governor	Appointed by GB/board	since 2021 · until 2029
Mrs Jodie Robson Former	Governor	Appointed by GB/board	since 2025 · term ended 2026

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools (governance records, as at 25 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Names are shown as published; there are no addresses or contact details. Current and former are worked out from term end dates when the page loads. Object or ask for removal · Report an issue with this record

Ofsted

Report cardNo overall grade. Inspected 25/11/2025

Ofsted report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on a five-point scale: Exceptional, Strong standard, Expected standard, Needs attention, Urgent improvement. Safeguarding standards are not graded: they are met or not met. Ofsted gives no overall grade, and none is worked out here.

Area	Judgement
Safeguarding standards	Met
Inclusion	Strong standard
Curriculum and teaching	Strong standard
Achievement	Strong standard
Attendance and behaviour	Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing	Strong standard
Early years	Expected standard
Leadership and governance	Strong standard

Inspection history

Date	Outcome
25/11/2025	Report card: Strong standard in 5 areas, Expected standard in 2; safeguarding standards met
17/11/2021	Good
05/12/2017	Requires improvement

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026, via WhatSchool: Ofsted may have published a newer report since. Since September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives a single overall grade at new inspections, so a one-word grade, where shown, belongs to the inspection date beside it. Ungraded inspections give no grade and are dated by month only. Inspections from September 2024 to November 2025 grade key judgements; report cards (from November 2025) grade evaluation areas.

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