Christ Church CofE Primary School

Overview: Christ Church CofE Primary School is a small, nurturing school where pupils are well cared for and safe. They show kindness and consideration to everyone, and are proud to belong to the school. The school has made progress in some areas, but pupils' achievement across the curriculum is uneven.

Strengths:

• The school has a calm and orderly environment where pupils can learn without disruption.
• Pupils are polite and well mannered, and bullying and unkind behaviour are not tolerated.
• Staff understand the behaviour expectations well and apply the rules and rewards with fairness and consistency.
• Pupils are confident that trusted adults will take quick action if unsafe behaviours occur, including online.
• The school has a family-like atmosphere, and parents and carers are overwhelmingly positive about the school.

Areas to improve:

• Pupils' progress across the curriculum is variable, with some subjects showing gaps in knowledge and skills from previous year groups.
• The curriculum, including the early years curriculum, needs to be further refined to ensure that pupils build the knowledge and skills they need across all subjects and year groups.
• The teaching of spelling, handwriting, and number fluency needs to be improved, with more children and pupils securing foundational knowledge and skills from the start of the early years.
• Teachers need to provide learning opportunities that are matched to pupils' starting points and build on what they already know and can do, to reduce gaps in learning and improve pupils' achievement across the curriculum.

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.