St Leonard's CofE (A) Primary School

Overview

St Leonard’s CofE (A) Primary School is described as a place where pupils are “proud of their school” and feel “safe, happy and confident.” The report highlights that leaders have created a “calm and welcoming environment” with a “caring, inclusive ethos,” resulting in high attendance and strong pupil achievement.

Strengths

• Pupils make “secure progress through the curriculum” and achieve “strongly from their starting points,” with performance in national tests being “broadly above average.”
• The curriculum is “broad, ambitious” and “expertly constructed,” with leaders prioritising reading and ensuring gaps in knowledge are “swiftly addressed.”
• Staff provide “highly effective adaptations” for disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs, ensuring they can “access the full curriculum” and “take part fully.”
• Pupils benefit from a “bespoke personal development programme” and an “exciting and ambitious variety of enrichment activities,” including leadership roles and community visits.
• Attendance rates are “above national averages,” and persistent absence is “much lower than seen nationally,” supported by timely interventions for barriers to learning.

Areas to improve

• Leaders should ensure that “higher attaining pupils in key stage 2 consistently have opportunities to work at greater depth across the curriculum.”

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.”