St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy

Overview: St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy, has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection. Pupils come to school happily each day, are eager to learn, and have very positive attitudes to school life. The school has high expectations for every pupil, and pupils rise to these expectations and achieve well across the curriculum.

Strengths:

• Pupils have very positive attitudes to school life.
• The school has high expectations for every pupil, and pupils rise to these expectations and achieve well across the curriculum.
• Pupils develop a sense of responsibility and leadership skills through roles such as librarians, school chaplains, or house captains.
• The school's diverse community provides a rich source of learning about other cultures, and pupils learn to be outward looking and tolerant.

Areas to improve:

• The school's systems and processes for checking how well the curriculum is working are less well developed in some subjects, and the curriculum does not support pupils' learning as well as it does in others.
• The standard of pupils' writing in subjects other than English is variable, and teachers do not always give pupils opportunities to apply their writing skills in subjects such as history, geography, and science.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.