St Mary's Bryanston Square CofE School

Overview: St Mary's Bryanston Square CofE School is a small, harmonious school where pupils feel safe and supported. They enjoy learning and appreciate the broad curriculum, frequent trips, and events. The school is a 'village' where pupils and staff treat each other with kindness and respect.

Strengths:

• Pupils love attending the school and enjoy learning the broad curriculum.
• The school is a cheerful and harmonious place where pupils behave with high levels of kindness and respect for others.
• Leaders have high expectations of all pupils, including those with SEND, and ensure they are well-supported.
• The curriculum is broad and ambitious for all, with leaders precisely identifying the knowledge and skills pupils need to learn between Nursery and Year 6.
• Subject leaders are trained to be experts in their areas of responsibility, ensuring teaching consists of an engaging and well-sequenced series of lessons.

Areas to improve:

• The impact of leaders' effective work to embed a broad and well-sequenced curriculum is not consistently reflected in pupils' outcomes in national assessments in all areas.
• The delivery of the curriculum has not consistently pinpointed and prioritised the knowledge and skills that pupils needed to learn and remember over time.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders being experts and well-trained in safeguarding, ensuring that staff are aware of how to recognise and report risks, and making appropriate referrals to work with local partners to ensure pupils' needs are met.