St Barbara's Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that St Barbara’s Primary School has “confident, able and articulate children” who are “well behaved and keen to learn.” Senior leaders provide “strong leadership,” resulting in a “positive impact” through the school’s improvement processes and a “welcoming, nurturing and caring ethos.”

Strengths

• Children are “proud of their school and have a strong sense of belonging.”
• Staff have created an environment where “children’s wellbeing is at the heart of the work of the school.”
• Children “make good progress in literacy and numeracy across the school.”
• The evaluation for “Leadership of change” is “good.”
• The evaluation for “Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion” is “good.”
• The evaluation for “Raising attainment and achievement” is “good.”

Areas to improve

• The headteacher should “fully involve the whole school community in identifying improvements and leading change.”
• Teachers need to “develop consistently high-quality learning and teaching” and provide more opportunities for children to “lead their own learning.”
• Staff should “meet better the learning and wellbeing needs of children through more effective planning and interventions,” supported by appropriate professional learning.

Safeguarding

The report states that staff have created a “welcoming, nurturing and caring ethos, where children’s wellbeing is at the heart of the work of the school,” and the evaluation for “Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion” is “good.”