Park Street Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School

Overview: Park Street Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School is an exceptional school, with a highly effective early years provision and strong systems to identify and meet pupils' additional needs. The school has a highly inclusive culture, where pupils feel safe and supported, and leaders are ambitious for all pupils.

Strengths:

• The school has a highly effective early years provision that gives children a secure start to school life.
• Leaders have put in place highly effective systems to identify, assess and meet pupils' additional needs.
• The school has a highly inclusive culture, where pupils feel safe and supported.
• Pupils are confident, polite and respectful, and demonstrate empathy and care for others.
• The school's personal, social, health and economics education curriculum and its relationships and health education curriculum are ambitious and carefully sequenced.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should refine practice further to ensure high quality implementation of the curriculum across all phases and areas, so that pupils achieve consistently well.
• Leaders should continue to refine and embed the school’s attendance strategies so that persistent absence reduces further and all groups of pupils attend school consistently well.

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.