St Luke's Catholic Primary School

Overview: St Luke's Catholic Primary School is a small school where staff know each pupil as an individual, and pupils enjoy warm relationships with their teachers. The school has high expectations for pupils' achievement, and they progress well through the curriculum, leaving Year 6 ready for the next stage in their education. Pupils behave well, are polite and courteous to staff and visitors, and take pride in following the school rules.

Strengths:

• Pupils enjoy warm relationships with their teachers and behave well.
• The school has high expectations for pupils' achievement and they progress well through the curriculum.
• Pupils are polite and courteous to staff and visitors, and take pride in following the school rules.
• Teachers use their knowledge of each pupil to swiftly identify those who need additional support.
• The school gives teachers the information and training they need to adapt learning activities, enabling pupils with SEND to learn well alongside their peers.
• Pupils learn about the world beyond their own community, including different types of families and how to keep themselves healthy and safe.

Areas to improve:

• In some subjects, some teachers do not use assessment information as well as they could to inform future learning activities, which hampers some pupils' progress.
• Some of the systems to ensure that the governors maintain oversight of the school's work are not as effective as they should be, which hampers governors from gaining a full insight into pupils' education and welfare.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.