St Margaret Mary's Catholic Infant School

Overview: St Margaret Mary's Catholic Infant School has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection. Pupils enjoy attending the school, and positive and caring relationships are central to the work of the school. The school provides a well-ordered curriculum, and teachers support children and pupils to develop their speech, language and communication.

Strengths:

• Pupils enjoy attending the school and feel safe due to positive and caring relationships.
• The school provides a well-ordered curriculum that allows children to build their knowledge securely over time.
• Teachers explain new learning clearly and regularly check to ensure that pupils have learned what was intended.
• The school supports pupils with SEND extremely well, accurately identifying how pupils' barriers to learning can be overcome and providing individualised support.

Areas to improve:

• Pupils who are at the early stages of reading do not receive the targeted phonics interventions that would allow them to catch up quickly.
• The actions the school has taken to foster a love of reading amongst pupils are not as effective as they could be, preventing some pupils from developing a deep understanding of books that they have read.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.