Our Lady's Primary School

Overview

Inspectors found that the school and nursery benefit from "strong strategic direction" and "nurturing and respectful relationships" between staff and children. The report highlights that staff undertake "high quality professional learning" which positively impacts teaching and child progress, with the nursery class making "very good progress."

Strengths

• Children are described as "polite, courteous and proud of their school," exemplifying values by looking after one another.
• Senior leaders are "well respected" and clearly understand the school’s strengths and areas for improvement.
• Professional learning is having a "positive impact on the quality of learning and teaching" and the progress children are making.
• Nursery children are developing a "wide range of skills" through high-quality experiences, particularly in woodwork.

Areas to improve

• Staff should "capture the wider range of skills children develop" as a result of their learning across the curriculum.
• Teachers need to develop approaches to assessment that enable children to "apply and demonstrate skills in new and unfamiliar contexts."
• Staff should engage with other schools to moderate planning and assessment to "continue to improve their professional judgements."

Safeguarding

The report evaluates "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" as "very good" for both the primary stages and the nursery class.