Holy Family Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that children are polite, supportive, and proud of their school, feeling respected as valued community members. Staff and the headteacher have developed positive relationships with families, while the nursery team is highly reflective in striving to improve learning experiences.

Strengths

• Children are described as "polite and support one another thoughtfully," taking pride in their achievements.
• The headteacher and staff "know children and families well," fostering positive relationships across the community.
• The nursery team is "highly reflective and continually strive to improve learning experiences for children."
• There is "effective teamwork of teaching staff to improve approaches to learning and teaching."

Areas to improve

• "Stronger strategic leadership is required to ensure continuous improvement across the early years centre and school."
• The school must "improve approaches to self-evaluation" to ensure priorities are based on school needs and lead to improved outcomes.
• Improve "whole school approaches to tracking and monitoring children’s progress and achievement" to ensure all children make the best possible progress.

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific narrative commentary on safeguarding arrangements, though it notes that the quality indicator for "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" was evaluated as "good" for both the primary stages and the early years centre.