St Antony's RC Primary School

Overview

St Antony’s RC Primary School has “taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection.” The report describes a “nurturing and welcoming environment” where pupils are “happy and proud to belong.” Leaders and governors work closely to ensure all pupils receive the support they need to achieve well.

Strengths

• Pupils “flourish, growing in confidence” and are “kind and considerate of others,” contributing to a positive ethos where they are expected to “try their best.”
• Teachers deliver an “ambitious curriculum with consistency,” helping pupils “build knowledge securely and quickly” and recall learning with ease.
• Pupils “achieve particularly well in reading,” with most reading with “accuracy and fluency” by Year 2 due to “carefully targeted support.”
• Staff are “well trained in identifying and meeting pupils’ additional needs,” enabling those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) to “achieve well.”
• The school is “adept at identifying and addressing areas of the curriculum that are not working as well as it expects,” such as recent adaptations to the English curriculum.

Areas to improve

• The school should ensure pupils “practise and apply what they have learned in English as well as they could” to build fluency.
• Leaders must make sure pupils’ written work across the curriculum is at a “consistently high standard” and reflects their learning, particularly regarding spelling, letter formation, and punctuation.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”