St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, Beeston

Overview: St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, Beeston, is an outstanding school where pupils feel safe and happy. Leaders and staff have high expectations of pupils' behaviour and attitudes, and staff build excellent relationships with pupils and their families from an early age.

Strengths:

• Pupils demonstrate high levels of respect for each other and help one another in lessons.
• Pupils are very keen to learn and demonstrate purposeful self-control and are highly focused in lessons.
• The school's curriculum is broad and ambitious, and pupils, including those with SEND, learn well in this inclusive school.
• Staff are experts in showing pupils how to be polite and inclusive, and pupils rise to these high expectations.

Areas to improve:

• In the early years, opportunities for children to independently develop learning characteristics, such as exploring and persevering, are more limited.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.