Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School, Loughborough

Overview: Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School, Loughborough is a good school where pupils are proud of their culturally diverse and welcoming school. Teachers help them to be reflective and confident to share their views. Relationships are positive and respectful. Expectations are high, and pupils are keen to learn and achieve well in most subjects.

Strengths:

• Pupils are proud of their culturally diverse and welcoming school.
• Teachers help pupils to be reflective and confident to share their views.
• Relationships are positive and respectful.
• Expectations are high, and pupils are keen to learn and achieve well in most subjects.
• Leaders have put in place a well-structured and sequenced curriculum in most subjects.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders do not ensure that gaps in knowledge for pupils with SEND are identified precisely enough.
• Leaders do not routinely check to make sure that pupils with SEND consistently receive the support they need to close any gaps in their knowledge.
• In some subjects, including geography, leaders do not always enable pupils to apply their knowledge to bigger and more complex ideas.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Leaders put pupils' welfare first, and staff receive regular training.