St Augustine's Catholic Primary and Nursery School, A Voluntary Academy

Overview: St Augustine's Catholic Primary and Nursery School, A Voluntary Academy, is a good school where pupils feel happy and safe. The school's values of service, love, forgiveness, courage, justice, compassion, and hope guide its work and are well understood by pupils. The school is a calm and welcoming place where pupils behave well and are proud to tell visitors about their school and work.

Strengths:

• Pupils know the school's values inside out and are guided by them.
• The school is a calm and welcoming place where pupils feel happy and safe.
• Pupils behave well and are polite, with little disruption to learning.
• The school teaches pupils the importance of the quality of their character as well as their work.
• Pupils are proud to tell visitors about their school and work.

Areas to improve:

• In a few wider curriculum subjects, approaches to checking on how well pupils remember the taught curriculum are less well established.
• The environment for learning in the early years does not always support children's learning as well as it could.
• Teaching does not always ensure that the needs of pupils with SEND are met in the classroom.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.