St Margaret's Church of England Primary School

Overview

The inspection found that St Margaret’s Church of England Primary School provides a high-quality education where pupils are “well known, highly valued and positively challenged.” Leaders demonstrate a “robust sense of ambition,” resulting in strong attendance, excellent early years provision, and high achievement in core subjects. While the school meets expected standards in most areas, there is a specific focus on improving consistency in the wider curriculum.

Strengths

• Attendance is “very high across the school,” with pupils enjoying school and feeling they belong.
• The early years curriculum is “truly rich in language and aspiration,” ensuring children are “extremely well prepared for learning in Year 1.”
• Pupils achieve well in reading and mathematics, consistently performing “above the national average” in key stage 2 assessments.
• Staff provide “bespoke support” for pupils with special educational needs, enabling them to progress well through the curriculum.
• A “coherent and well-sequenced programme of personal development” helps pupils understand diversity and British values.

Areas to improve

• Leaders should “further embed consistent teaching of the wider curriculum,” ensuring pupils produce “high-quality work in all foundation subjects.”
• In some subjects, teaching is “not as consistently effective as it could be,” with high expectations for discussion not always translating to the quality of written work produced.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an “open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility” and concerns are actively identified and managed.