St Edmund's Catholic Primary School

Overview

St Edmund’s Catholic Primary School continues to be a good school, where pupils feel safe, valued, and proud of their community. Leaders have established a well-considered curriculum that builds learning in sensible steps, ensuring pupils are well prepared for their next stage. The school fosters a calm, positive environment where staff apply behaviour policies consistently and pupils demonstrate respect and tolerance.

Strengths

• The curriculum is "well-considered and carefully ordered," helping pupils "know and remember more" through logical progression.
• Staff receive effective training to ensure "secure subject knowledge" and confidence in teaching all subjects.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are "quickly and accurately identified," receiving support that allows them to access the same curriculum as their peers.
• There is a wide range of clubs, trips, and roles of responsibility, such as eco council and school council, which help pupils become "respectful and responsible citizens."
• Governors "know the school well" and effectively support and challenge leaders regarding continuous improvement.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must ensure systems are in place to assess what pupils know and remember across the wider curriculum, as current checks are "less established" in some subjects.
• Leaders need to ensure the new synthetic phonics programme is "fully and consistently implemented" across the whole school through monitoring and additional training.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with robust checks, regular training, and swift action taken in response to concerns.