St John XXIII Catholic Primary School

Overview: St John XXIII Catholic Primary School is a highly effective school where pupils achieve well and are well prepared for the next stage of their education. The school has a strong focus on inclusion, with leaders providing highly effective support and adaptations for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Pupils' behaviour is exemplary, and they are happy and safe in school.

Strengths:

• Pupils achieve well at this school, with their attainment in reading, writing and mathematics significantly above national averages at the end of key stage 2.
• Pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are particularly successful, achieving well in comparison with disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils nationally.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities also progress well through the curriculum.
• Pupils' behaviour across the school is exemplary, with well-established routines promoting a friendly and orderly beginning to learning.
• The school focuses on quickly getting to know every pupil's individual needs, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Leaders provide an extensive and well-structured personal development and wellbeing offer that is embedded in everyday learning.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should strengthen teachers' expertise in promoting pupils' learning through the selection of activities and resources that are tightly matched to the school's curriculum aims.
• Leaders should further increase the expertise of early years staff in building and deepening children's language and communication skills.

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.