Lanchester Endowed Parochial Primary School

Overview: Lanchester Endowed Parochial Primary School continues to be a good school, with a strong and distinctive Christian ethos that shines through in its core values and relationships between pupils and adults.

Strengths:

• The school's strong and distinctive Christian ethos is enacted in its core values, such as love, hope and compassion.
• Relationships between pupils and adults are warm and trusting.
• Pupils behave very well and are self-motivated, working hard and setting themselves challenging targets.
• The curriculum grabs pupils' attention, fosters curiosity and promotes enthusiasm for learning.
• Pupils enjoy school and want to learn, with positive behaviour in lessons helping them to succeed.

Areas to improve:

• In some foundation subjects, the most important knowledge and key concepts that pupils need to grasp and remember lack clarity, limiting pupils' ability to connect new learning to what they already know and to remember more key knowledge over time.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.