St Laurence CofE Primary School

Overview: St Laurence CofE Primary School is a happy and welcoming school that encourages all pupils to be trustworthy, hardworking and creative. Pupils value the caring relationships that underpin the school's positive ethos and enjoy school, with good or better attendance and behaviour.

Strengths:

• The school's curriculum is broad and ambitious, covering the national curriculum and including enrichment activities.
• Teaching is strong overall and helps pupils do well in national tests.
• Early reading is taught well, with children learning phonics as soon as they start school and becoming fluent and confident readers quickly.
• Pupils with SEND are taught well, with teachers and other adults identifying pupils with SEND quickly and adapting classroom activities to meet their needs.
• The school uses specialist staff to cater for pupils' specific difficulties, including their social, emotional and mental health needs.

Areas to improve:

• The physical environment in the Nursery and some of the equipment is rather outdated, limiting its use as an effective tool for helping all children to develop well across all areas of learning.
• In some foundation subjects, the delivery of the curriculum has not been monitored closely enough, resulting in some variability in how well the curriculum is delivered.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.