St James and St John CofE Primary School

Overview:

Pupils love coming to this happy and nurturing school, where they demonstrate the school's values of courage, kindness, and respect in their everyday conduct. Pupils enjoy learning and making connections between subject areas and the world around them, and they achieve well in most subjects.

Strengths:

• Pupils have a clear and purposeful vision for both behaviour and the quality of their work.
• Pupils enjoy learning and making connections between subject areas and the world around them.
• Pupils achieve well in most subjects, including reading, where they have high achievement in the phonics test at the end of Year 1 in 2023.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are achieving well.
• The school teaches pupils to read very well, leading to high achievement in reading.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects, staff do not systematically check what pupils have learned and can remember, leading to gaps in pupils' knowledge and not all pupils achieving as well as they could.

Safeguarding:

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.