Our Lady's Catholic Primary School

Overview: Our Lady's Catholic Primary School continues to be a good school, where pupils are proud to be part of a welcoming school community and enjoy coming to school because they know staff take good care of them.

Strengths:

• Pupils are proud to be part of this welcoming school community and enjoy coming to school.
• Leaders encourage pupils to strive to be their 'best selves' and rise to these high expectations by behaving well and trying their hardest in class.
• Pupils have learned the importance of respecting everyone and know that their learning about tolerance and diversity helps them to treat each other with kindness and care.
• Leaders have high aspirations for pupils with SEND and leaders identify these pupils' needs accurately.
• Leaders and staff prioritise reading across the school and pupils read widely and often.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects, leaders have not fully defined the most important knowledge that they want pupils to know and remember, which means that teachers are not sufficiently clear about what they should be teaching.
• In some subjects, including in the early years, teachers do not have a thorough enough understanding of how well pupils are learning the curriculum, which means that some pupils develop gaps in their knowledge that teachers are unaware of.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders and governors ensuring that staff prioritise safeguarding, staff are well-trained to spot signs that pupils may be at risk of harm, and leaders follow up any concerns thoroughly.