St Bede's Catholic Primary School

Overview: Pupils flourish in the nurturing and supportive environment at St Bede's Catholic Primary School, where they behave extremely well and enjoy positive and respectful relationships with adults and each other. The school has a welcoming and inclusive culture, and pupils feel safe.

Strengths:

• Pupils behave extremely well and enjoy positive and respectful relationships with adults and each other.
• The school has a welcoming and inclusive culture, and pupils feel safe.
• Pupils achieve well by the end of key stage 2, including disadvantaged pupils.
• The school has a sharp focus on the teaching of early reading, with a phonics programme delivered consistently by all staff.
• Pupils love reading and enjoy it when teachers read to them, and they read with increasing fluency and expression when reading aloud.

Areas to improve:

• Assessment for pupils with SEND is not yet fully developed, and it is unclear how well pupils with SEND achieve currently.
• In some subjects where the curriculum has very recently been changed, some key skills and concepts have not yet been made clear for teachers.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.