St John's Catholic Primary School, Camborne

Overview: St John's Catholic Primary School, Camborne is a highly inclusive school where pupils belong and thrive. The school values the multicultural nature of its community and extends a warm welcome to all its families. Leaders have high ambitions for all, and pupils enjoy their learning and make steady progress through the curriculum.

Strengths:

• Pupils achieve well across the school, with attainment in reading, writing, and mathematics at expected and higher standards above the national average.
• Pupils, including those who are disadvantaged, progress well from their starting points and secure the knowledge and skills they need to be well prepared for the next stage of their education.
• Attendance is a focus for the school, with leaders taking a tenacious approach to understanding the causes of absence and removing barriers to pupils attending well.
• Staff set high expectations, which pupils consistently meet, and pupils demonstrate positive attitudes to learning.
• The school provides effective welfare and pastoral support, guided by the school's values, and bullying is not tolerated.

Areas to improve:

• Some aspects of the early years provision are not as effective as in the rest of the school, with learning activities not consistently engaging children or enabling them to develop and deepen their understanding of the intended curriculum.
• The approach to teaching handwriting is not consistently implemented, which hinders the quality of some pupils' work.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon, and managed.