St Andrew's Catholic Primary School

Overview: St Andrew's Catholic Primary School is a good school where pupils are happy, confident, and love to learn. The school is a calm and purposeful place where pupils are safe and well cared for, and there is a real sense of family and belonging.

Strengths:

• The behaviour of pupils is a strength, with both in-class and playground behaviour being courteous, polite, considerate, and respectful.
• Pupils respond well to high expectations from teachers, displaying positive attitudes to learning and producing work of good quality.
• The school has a culture of loving literature, with pupils benefiting from their teachers reading exciting books to them every day.
• Staff are supported well to identify and provide support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Areas to improve:

• The curriculum in some subjects is not yet fully embedded, meaning that in a small number of subjects, pupils don’t make the connections in their learning that they could.
• Some parents, including some of those of pupils with SEND, do not feel that they are informed about the work of the school as well as they need to be.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.