Christ Church Charnock Richard CofE Primary School

Overview: Christ Church Charnock Richard CofE Primary School is a well-performing school that consistently meets or exceeds national standards in various areas. The school has a strong focus on inclusion, pastoral support, and pupil wellbeing, which contributes to its positive culture and high levels of pupil achievement.

Strengths:

• Pupils learn well and achieve highly, with consistently high-quality written work and pupils' confidence when speaking about their learning.
• Attendance and behaviour are strong, with leaders consistently promoting and expecting high attendance and pupils' behaviour being exemplary.
• Personal development and wellbeing are strong, with leaders having embedded an ambitious and extensive personal development and wellbeing programme that has a very positive impact on pupils.
• The school's approach to teaching phonics is highly successful, with pupils being skilfully taught the sounds that letters make and letter shapes quickly so that they learn to read and write with accuracy from the early years.
• The school prioritises the early years, with effective partnerships with parents, carers and other professionals ensuring a smooth transition for children into the early years.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should ensure that they check the impact of support for disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities with greater rigour and precision, to ensure that adjustments to meet pupils' changing needs are effective.
• Leaders should further develop staff expertise to ensure consistently high-quality teaching across year groups and subjects.
• The support that a small number of pupils receive is not consistently helpful, and leaders recognise that systems for monitoring the impact of their actions, and adjusting support for pupils accordingly, are not always as robust as they could be.

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.