St Mary's Bryanston Square CofE School

Overview

Pupils love attending this small ‘village’ school, describing it as a “cheerful and harmonious place” where they feel safe and supported. Leaders maintain high expectations for all pupils, fostering a culture of “excellence with compassion” and ensuring a broad, ambitious curriculum that enriches learning through frequent trips and community engagement.

Strengths

• Pupils behave with “high levels of kindness and respect,” and bullying is “very rare” and dealt with swiftly.
• The curriculum is “broad and ambitious,” with subject leaders ensuring teaching is an “engaging and well-sequenced series of lessons.”
• Reading is the “golden thread of the curriculum,” with careful checks on phonics progression and rapid support for those needing help.
• Early years provision is “exceptionally well planned” to prepare children for their next steps as “resilient and ambitious learners.”
• Staff and pupils treat each other with kindness, and leaders provide an “extensive range of trips and activities” available to all.

Areas to improve

• The impact of the well-sequenced curriculum is not yet consistently reflected in national assessment outcomes in all areas.
• Curriculum delivery has not consistently pinpointed the specific knowledge and skills pupils need to remember over time.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders who are “experts and well trained” ensuring staff can recognise risks and that pupils’ concerns are dealt with “promptly and effectively.”