St Helen's Catholic Primary School

Overview: St Helen's Catholic Primary School is a good school where pupils rise to high expectations, enjoy one another's company, and are polite and friendly. The school provides a warm and welcoming environment, and a culture of mutual respect flows through the school.

Strengths:

• A culture of mutual respect flows through the school, creating a warm and welcoming environment.
• Pupils behave well, making the school a calm and orderly place.
• The school provides a well-considered personal development programme that helps pupils develop beyond the academic curriculum.
• The provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is effective, with leaders making appropriate adaptations to activities.

Areas to improve:

• In a small number of subjects, leaders have not precisely identified the important knowledge they want pupils to learn, resulting in pupils not developing a detailed knowledge in these subjects.
• While systems are in place to identify and support pupils with SEND, they do not consistently provide leaders with a clear and precise oversight of the effectiveness of the SEND provision.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with regular and relevant training staff receive helping them identify if a pupil is at risk of harm, and any concerns being reported in a timely way and followed up quickly.