St Andrew's RC School

Overview

The inspection found that children are “articulate, happy, confident and keen to learn” and demonstrate the school’s values. Senior leaders provide “strong and strategic leadership,” creating a climate of continuous improvement where wellbeing needs are “very effectively met.” The report confirms the school has the capacity to continue improving without further visits.

Strengths

• Children are “extremely proud of their school” and achieve “high levels of attainment and achievement.”
• Staff ensure children’s rights and gospel values are the “foundation of the school ethos,” fostering positive relationships.
• Senior leaders have developed leadership at all levels, with pupil voice groups “contributing positively to change.”
• In the nursery, children show “high levels of independence” during mealtimes, serving their own food and engaging in conversation.

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders should expand opportunities for staff, parents, and children to engage in planning and evaluating school improvement, ensuring actions clearly demonstrate effectiveness.
• Leaders and teachers must provide “consistently high-quality learning and teaching” to ensure children are “consistently challenged” and move quickly through their learning.
• Nursery staff need to improve planning and assessment approaches, gather broader evidence of progress, and extend learning through “digital learning approaches.”

Safeguarding

Senior leaders and the local authority have taken forward areas for improvement in safeguarding which “required urgent action” and should continue to monitor and review the impact of this work.