St Andrew's Church of England Infant School

Overview: St Andrew's Church of England Infant School is a welcoming and inclusive environment where pupils feel happy, safe and valued. The school has high expectations for pupils' behaviour and academic success, and pupils demonstrate a real thirst for knowledge and achieve well.

Strengths:

• The school has a well-constructed curriculum that is interesting and ambitious.
• Staff value the professional development they receive and use their strong subject knowledge to introduce new learning effectively.
• The school places a very high priority on making sure that pupils become prolific and fluent readers, with expert staff making sure that pupils develop their phonics knowledge and reading skills securely.

Areas to improve:

• There is variation in how well handwriting is taught, with some pupils not securing the foundational skills of accurate letter formation well enough.
• Sometimes, teaching does not identify and address key gaps and misconceptions in pupils' knowledge well enough, where this happens, pupils do not learn as well as they could.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.