St Katharine's Knockholt Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School

Overview: St Katharine's Knockholt Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School continues to be a good school, where pupils are proud and happy to be at the heart of this close-knit learning community. Relationships between staff and families are warm, respectful and supportive. Pupils listen well and are keen to engage with the views of others.

Strengths:

• Pupils offer a warm welcome to their school and are proud and happy to be there.
• Relationships between staff and families are warm, respectful and supportive.
• Pupils listen well and are keen to engage with the views of others.
• Pupils are positive about learning, saying that 'teachers always make our lessons fun'.
• The curriculum is well planned and engaging.
• Leaders show high ambition for all, particularly pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Teachers use efficient assessments to identify where pupils need individual help.
• Support starts in early years, where staff identify if pupils need help with speech and language or balance and coordination.
• Pupils are confident that should any incidents of bullying happen, staff would deal with them effectively.

Areas to improve:

• The curriculum is not yet fully embedded in every subject, which means that pupils may not know and remember their learning securely, for example in design and technology.
• Leaders recognise that some pupils' writing skills have been more adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic than others, and a group of pupils are not achieving highly with their writing.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. There is a strong culture of safeguarding, with staff knowing how to identify risks to pupils because of robust training, and pupils knowing how to stay safe.