Crosby Ravensworth CofE School

Overview: Crosby Ravensworth CofE School is a small, mixed-age school with a warm and caring community where pupils feel welcome and valued. The school has high expectations for pupils' achievement and provides a broad and balanced curriculum that meets the learning needs of its pupils.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy to be part of the school's small community and feel welcome from the start.
• Staff nurture pupils' well-being and sense of belonging.
• Pupils achieve well across a range of subjects and have a strong appreciation of the school's values of 'community, courage and compassion'.
• The school provides well for pupils' personal development, including learning how to keep themselves safe and developing their talents and interests.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) achieve well and are well-supported to learn alongside their peers.

Areas to improve:

• The school should build on its strategies to help pupils know and remember more, as some pupils' gaps and misconceptions in subject-specific knowledge have not been identified.
• The school should ensure that staff have the knowledge and skills to better support pupils in their reading and writing development, as some mistakes in reading and written work are sometimes overlooked.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.