All Saints CofE Aided Infant School

Overview: All Saints CofE Aided Infant School is a happy and inclusive school where pupils feel safe and valued. The school has a strong focus on personal development and wellbeing, with pupils demonstrating respectful and courteous behaviour towards peers and adults.

Strengths:

• Pupils consistently demonstrate respectful and courteous behaviour towards peers and adults.
• Pupils interact confidently with staff and visitors and show curiosity and engagement in lessons.
• The school's financial education is highly effective and prepares pupils to make positive, responsible choices about their futures.
• Pupils actively contribute to charitable and community initiatives, demonstrating pride in making a positive difference.
• The school fosters a culture of high expectations for pupils' academic and wider development, empowering staff to take strategic actions.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders need to further develop staff expertise in checking and deepening pupils' understanding so gaps and misconceptions can be addressed effectively.
• Leaders should continue to develop pupils' writing by embedding their approach to accurate and well-sequenced letter formation and spelling.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.