St John the Baptist Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Pebmarsh

Overview: St John the Baptist Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Pebmarsh continues to be a good school, where pupils are happy and proud to attend, and enjoy learning. Teachers think carefully about how to make lessons engaging and build pupils' knowledge.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy and proud to attend the school and enjoy learning.
• Teachers think carefully about how to make lessons engaging and build pupils' knowledge.
• Pupils are kind and tolerant, treating adults and each other with respect.
• Pupils understand and usually follow the school rules.
• Leaders have made significant improvements to the curriculum, introducing new reading schemes and programmes of learning.

Areas to improve:

• The assessment of older pupils' reading is not sufficiently precise, meaning texts are not always precisely matched to their needs.
• On occasion, teachers do not have high enough expectations of what pupils can do, resulting in the curriculum not being sufficiently ambitious to push learners to acquire knowledge as well as they could.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders carrying out required checks on adults who wish to work with pupils, staff knowing pupils well and quickly spotting signs that pupils may be unsafe, and all staff being well-trained and knowing how to report concerns.