St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead

Overview: St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead, continues to be a good school. Pupils learn well as a result of a continually improving, well-taught curriculum, and they enjoy school, finding it a friendly place where they can learn and play well together.

Strengths:

• Staff, school leaders, and trust leaders are hugely ambitious for pupils.
• Pupils are building impressive knowledge in a range of subjects.
• Pupils are safe, and adults look after them well.
• The school's curriculum, which is clearly mapped out, and the resources that support it are of high quality.
• Leaders have developed effective teaching approaches to support pupils' learning, including regular repetition of information and a consistent focus on using vocabulary well.

Areas to improve:

• Teachers in key stage 1 have not had the training they need to teach the curriculum as effectively as it is taught in key stage 2.
• The early years curriculum is not sufficiently aligned to the knowledge-rich curriculum that pupils are following at key stages 1 and 2.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.