Holy Family Catholic Primary School

Overview: Holy Family Catholic Primary School is a good school where pupils arrive happy and eager to learn, benefiting from warm and encouraging relationships with staff. They develop confidence and a strong sense of self-worth, and behave well at work and at play.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy and confident, socialising well with each other and learning to take turns with their friends.
• The school has successfully improved the curriculum across the rest of the school, making it interesting, broad and ambitious for all pupils, including those with SEND.
• Teachers use a range of strategies to check on pupils' understanding and resolve any misconceptions, helping pupils to know and remember more over time and progress well.
• The school places a high importance on pupils learning to read, with the structured phonics programme taught from the start of the Reception Year, and most pupils becoming fluent and accurate readers by the end of Year 2.
• Pupils have many opportunities to develop their understanding of the wider world, including equality, respect and democracy.

Areas to improve:

• On occasion, some teachers do not design the most suitable activities to help pupils learn all that they should, sometimes hampering pupils' achievement.
• Some aspects of the curriculum in the early years have not been finalised, meaning that staff are unclear about what children need to learn, and some children do not learn all that they should in readiness for Year 1.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.