St Katharine's CofE Primary School

Overview

St Katharine’s CofE Primary School is described as a “close-knit, welcoming school” where pupils feel “safe and valued.” The report highlights a “calm and harmonious” environment with “exemplary” behaviour and attendance that is “consistently above national averages.” Most pupils achieve well, leaving school “ready for the next stage of education,” though some inconsistencies in teaching and assessment remain.

Strengths

• Leaders have established a “culture of belonging” that pupils and families “value highly,” resulting in high attendance and strong relationships.
• Behaviour is “exemplary,” with pupils demonstrating “high levels of self-discipline” and bullying being “extremely uncommon.”
• Reading is a “strength,” supported by a “positive culture of reading” and high pass rates in phonics screening.
• Staff provide effective, tailored support for pupils with special educational needs, ensuring they “achieve well from their starting points.”
• The curriculum is “ambitious” and “suitable for all year groups,” with clear end points and logical progression.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must ensure checks on pupils’ understanding “identify gaps in knowledge and inform future teaching” so pupils build knowledge securely.
• Leaders should ensure all staff present content in ways that enable pupils to “grasp ideas fully” and make consistently strong progress.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an “open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility” and concerns being “actively identified, acted upon and managed.”