Chapel Street Community Primary School

Overview: Chapel Street Community Primary School provides a nurturing environment where pupils are happy and feel safe. Pupils are respectful of their peers and adults, and they know that there are trusted adults to talk to if they have any worries. The school forms strong relationships with families and encourages parents and carers to join in with school life.

Strengths:

• The school provides a love of reading, with pupils in the Nursery class learning songs and rhymes that prepare them well for learning how to read words in the Reception class.
• Pupils are proud of the school's diverse community and welcome new friends from all over the world.
• The school ensures that the additional needs of pupils with SEND are identified quickly, and staff use information to adapt the delivery of the curriculum and provide appropriate support.
• The school's work to ensure pupils are safe and in school regularly is thorough, with detailed records and a close look for patterns.

Areas to improve:

• The checks on what pupils remember over time are not effective enough in a small number of subjects, which means that gaps in learning persist and make it difficult for pupils to build new knowledge when they encounter new learning.
• At times, the curriculum is not delivered as well as the school intends, which means that some of the learning activities that teachers design do not best match the needs of pupils, sometimes hindering pupils' progress through the curriculum.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.