Our Lady Mother of the Saviour Catholic Primary School

Overview: Our Lady Mother of the Saviour Catholic Primary School is a well-performing school that consistently achieves strong standards across most aspects of its work. Pupils enjoy learning, take pride in their work, and achieve well in national tests at the end of key stage 2. The school has a strong culture of safeguarding, and leaders have developed a culture of high expectations across the school.

Strengths:

• Leaders have developed a culture of high expectations across the school, reflected in the positive behaviour and outcomes achieved by pupils.
• The school has a strong culture of safeguarding, with leaders and governors fulfilling their specific responsibilities and establishing an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.
• Pupils consistently achieve well in national tests at the end of key stage 2, with 75% of pupils meeting the expected standards in reading, writing, and mathematics.
• The school has a strong curriculum, with leaders having an accurate understanding of the quality of the curriculum and teaching across the school.
• Pupils develop a detailed understanding of personal, social, health, and economic education, and learn to communicate effectively, including learning the key skills in reading, writing, and mathematics.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should continue to develop their work with professionals, parents, and carers to remove the barriers to positive attendance, so that the number of pupils who are persistently absent reduces further.
• Leaders should continue their work to develop pupils' writing skills to enable more pupils to have the opportunity to work within and achieve the higher standard by the end of key stage 2.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon, and managed.