St Andrew's and St Mark's CofE Junior School

Overview: St Andrew's and St Mark's CofE Junior School is a highly effective school where pupils thrive and achieve highly. Leaders have created a positive and inclusive culture where every pupil is supported to achieve their best. Pupils are proud of the school's values and feel safe and supported.

Strengths:

• Pupils consistently achieve highly across a wide range of subjects.
• Pupils build very secure foundations in reading, writing, and mathematics.
• Attendance is above the national average and improving further year on year.
• Pupils behave extremely well, both in classrooms and in the playground.
• The school's curriculum is ambitious and broad, with leaders having designed each subject carefully.
• Leaders have established an inclusive culture in which every pupil is supported to achieve highly.
• Leaders have a deep and thorough knowledge of the families and community that the school serves.
• The governing body is knowledgeable, committed, and deeply invested in the school's success.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should continue to build on their effective work to further improve the attendance of all pupils, especially those who are disadvantaged.
• Leaders should continue their successful strategies to ensure that disadvantaged pupils achieve well in mathematics.

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.