Our Lady and St Teresa's Catholic Primary School

Overview: Our Lady and St Teresa's Catholic Primary School has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection, with leaders sustaining the school's performance and pupils taking pride in their school, feeling safe and happy.

Strengths:

• Pupils take pride in their school and are happy and cheerful members of the school community.
• The school has high expectations for all pupils to achieve well, and most pupils reach these high expectations.
• The teaching of phonics is a strength, with pupils making good progress in learning their phonics and becoming confident and fluent readers.
• The school has carefully constructed the curriculum, beginning in the early years, with a clear sequence to learning that helps pupils to know and remember more as they progress through school.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are quickly identified by the school, and the school puts in place personalised support programmes that help pupils with SEND study the same curriculum as other pupils.

Areas to improve:

• Occasionally, teachers do not have high enough expectations of their pupils, which means some pupils are not producing their best work or learning key knowledge effectively.
• Pupils' attitudes to learning are not good enough in a few lessons, which disrupts the learning for some pupils.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.