All Saints CofE Primary School, Bednall

Overview: All Saints CofE Primary School, Bednall, is a nurturing and inclusive school with a real family ethos, where staff know pupils and their families well. However, the school's vision to achieve the knowledge and skills pupils need to succeed is not yet fully realised.

Strengths:

• The school has a real family ethos, with parents, pupils, and staff commenting on its positive atmosphere.
• Pupils work and play together well, and enjoy coming to school.
• The school provides opportunities for pupils to deepen their learning through trips and visitors, and every pupil is given an opportunity to contribute to school life in some way.
• The school prioritises reading, celebrating it through 'All Saints All Star' awards and adopting a new scheme to teach reading.
• The school supports pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) well, with staff having training to provide extra help.

Areas to improve:

• Not all staff are as expert in teaching phonics as the school would like, leading to inconsistency in the delivery of the early reading curriculum.
• In many subjects, the curriculum has been recently revised and is at an early stage of implementation, leading to inconsistency in delivery and pupils not learning as well as they should.
• The evaluation and monitoring of subjects is not yet fully effective, with the school not always knowing how well subjects are implemented and so not aware of inconsistency in delivery of the curriculum.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.