Manchester Junior Girls' School

Overview: Manchester Junior Girls' School is a good school where pupils enjoy coming to school, share strong relationships with staff, and achieve well. The school provides a broad and balanced curriculum, effective training and support for teachers, and a calm and purposeful environment.

Strengths:

• Pupils enjoy coming to school and share strong, caring relationships with staff.
• Pupils rise to high expectations and achieve well, with a broad and balanced curriculum that meets their needs and interests.
• The school values and prioritises reading for all pupils, with regular rhymes and songs in the early years and frequent opportunities for older pupils to read independently or listen to stories.
• Pupils behave extremely well, with staff applying the behaviour policy consistently and creating a calm, caring and purposeful environment.

Areas to improve:

• The school should complete its curriculum thinking in a small number of subjects so that teachers are clear about what pupils should learn and by when.
• Some elements of the programme that the school has designed to support pupils' personal development are not implemented as effectively as they could be, limiting or lacking coherence.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.