Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School

Overview

This is a school where “every child is welcomed and celebrated,” fostering an “inclusive environment” with high expectations that pupils consistently meet. Leaders have established an “engaging and ambitious curriculum” supported by well-trained staff, resulting in pupils who are “prepared for the next stage of their education” and display “highly positive attitudes.”

Strengths

• Pupils are “friendly and caring,” maintaining warm relationships with adults which helps them feel “happy and safe.”
• The school has successfully forged a “love of reading,” with a “well-ordered phonics programme” ensuring most pupils become “confident, fluent readers by the end of Year 2.”
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are “nurtured with compassion” and achieve well from their individual starting points.
• Staff effectively identify and address misconceptions, while robust systems help improve attendance and overcome barriers to learning.
• Pupils demonstrate a “secure understanding of the fundamental British values” and know how to keep themselves safe online.

Areas to improve

• In some subjects, pupils do not have “secure foundations” because staff do not ensure they “revise and recall their previous knowledge securely enough.”
• Opportunities for enrichment are “variable” and “not well honed,” meaning some wider experiences are “limited in their scope” and do not consistently widen pupils’ horizons.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”