St George's CofE First School and Nursery

Overview

St George's CofE First School and Nursery requires improvement in the quality of education, but has a good reputation for behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The school has made many improvements, including overhauling the curriculum, but some pupils have developed gaps in their learning over time.

Strengths

• Pupils behave well in lessons and around the school, displaying highly positive attitudes.
• Relationships between staff and pupils are warm and nurturing, with pupils feeling safe and knowing they can share concerns with any adult.
• The school celebrates diversity throughout the curriculum and pupils enjoy sharing their experiences of different traditions and religious celebrations.
• Pupils speak with pride about roles of responsibility, such as being sports leaders and school councillors.
• Staff are well-trained to deliver the phonics programme consistently well, and reading has a high priority at the school.

Areas to improve

• The school should make sure that pupils' knowledge builds on what they know already, so that pupils can apply their learning to more complex mathematical problems.
• Teachers' assessment of what pupils know and remember over time is not precise enough in some subjects, hindering pupils from learning as deeply as they should.
• Teachers are not able to accurately assess individual pupil achievement or identify any gaps in learning that they may have.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.