Fulwood, St Peter's Church of England Primary School and Nursery

Overview: Fulwood, St Peter's Church of England Primary School and Nursery is a good school that provides a high-quality education to its pupils. The school has a strong focus on teaching and learning, and pupils achieve well in many subjects. They are happy and enjoy their learning, and the school provides them with many opportunities to develop their personal skills and interests.

Strengths:

• Pupils achieve well and in some subjects they excel, meeting the school's high expectations.
• Pupils develop a rich vocabulary and become confident, fluent readers.
• The school provides pupils with many beneficial opportunities to support their personal development, such as educational visits and activities that deepen their knowledge.
• Staff enjoy their work and feel that the school supports them, including with their workload.
• The school has successfully made reading a high priority, strengthening its work and providing pupils with a wide knowledge of different stories and rhymes.

Areas to improve:

• The school has not thought carefully enough about the essential subject content that pupils should learn and staff should assess, resulting in gaps in pupils' knowledge.
• The school does not communicate well enough with parents, resulting in some parents becoming concerned about aspects of the school's work.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.