St Mark's CofE Primary School

Overview: St Mark's CofE Primary School continues to be a good school, providing a positive and supportive environment for pupils to learn and develop.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy in school and benefit from a wide range of clubs and opportunities.
• Pupils behave well, guided by the school's values and developing strong learning behaviours.
• The school has high expectations for pupils' achievement, including for those with SEND.
• Pupils benefit from warm and supportive relationships with staff, which gives them the confidence to try their best.
• The school places a high priority on supporting pupils to attend well and has taken effective action to reduce absences.

Areas to improve:

• In a small number of subjects, there is a lack of clarity about the essential knowledge that teachers should focus on when designing learning.
• This means that some pupils do not recall and build on prior learning as well as they could.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.