St Barnabas and St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School

Overview: St Barnabas and St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School is a good school with outstanding personal development and early years provision. Pupils enjoy warm and supportive relationships with staff, are happy and safe in school, and achieve well across a broad range of subjects.

Strengths:

• Pupils enjoy warm and supportive relationships with staff.
• Pupils are happy and safe in school.
• Pupils achieve well across a broad range of subjects.
• Children in the early years develop confidence in their abilities and learn to communicate with increasing clarity.
• Pupils benefit from an impressive range of opportunities that help them to grow and develop into well-rounded citizens of the future.

Areas to improve:

• In some subjects, the school has not identified the key vocabulary that pupils need in order to access the full curriculum and understand the books that they read.
• There is not enough emphasis placed on developing and expanding pupils’ vocabulary, which hinders some pupils from understanding what they read and makes it difficult for them to learn key vocabulary relating to different subjects.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.