Heddon-on-the-Wall, St Andrew's Church of England Primary School

Overview: Heddon-on-the-Wall, St Andrew's Church of England Primary School continues to be a good school. Pupils feel safe and trust their friends and adults, and warm and caring relationships are a key feature of the school. The curriculum interests and enthuses pupils, and they enjoy learning, so they try hard and behave well.

Strengths:

• Pupils feel safe because of their trust in friends and adults.
• Warm and caring relationships are a key feature of the school.
• The curriculum interests and enthuses pupils.
• Pupils enjoy learning, so they try hard and behave well.
• Leaders provide a high-quality learning environment that is calm, orderly and inviting.

Areas to improve:

• The curriculum in some foundation subjects, such as PE and computing, is not as well structured or mapped out as it is in other subjects within the curriculum.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Leaders make sure that all staff know that safeguarding is everyone's responsibility, and staff have a 'it could happen here' mentality.