St Benedict's Catholic Primary School

Overview: Pupils are proud to attend St Benedict's Catholic Primary School, inspired by its Catholic ethos and motto of 'pray together, learn together'. They are safe, happy, and achieve well in a school where behaviour is exemplary and a positive attitude to learning is developed.

Strengths:

• Pupils benefit from an ambitious curriculum and consistently well-sequenced lessons.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are given the right support in lessons and achieve well.
• The school has effective systems in place to check what pupils know and can remember, and pupils revisit prior learning in each lesson.
• Pupils are encouraged to use the correct language and talk about their learning with confidence and accuracy.
• The school has embedded an excellent reading culture, and pupils learn to read quickly and confidently.
• Pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is of a high quality, with leaders weaving pupils' broader development into all aspects of school life.
• The school provides an exceptional variety of activities at lunchtimes, helping pupils develop friendships across year groups.

Areas to improve: The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.