St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

Overview: St Joseph's Catholic Primary School is an exceptional school, with a strong standard of achievement, attendance, and behaviour. The school has a positive culture of safeguarding, and leaders and governors work together to provide a high-quality education.

Strengths:

• Pupils achieve very well across year groups and subjects, building knowledge securely through the curriculum.
• Attendance remains consistently above national figures for most pupils, with leaders prioritising daily attendance and working effectively with families and external agencies.
• Highly respectful relationships are at the heart of this school, with staff knowing pupils well and helping them feel well cared for and secure.
• The school's personal development programme is well designed, giving pupils the knowledge and confidence they need for the wider world.
• The school has a strong sense of unity, with leaders, staff, and governors working together to provide a high-quality education.

Areas to improve:

• The school should continue to refine curriculum design and implementation, extending adaptations so that all pupils, including in the early years, benefit from learning that is transformational.

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.