St Mary's Catholic Primary School

Overview: St Mary's Catholic Primary School is a good school that provides a welcoming and inclusive environment for its pupils. Pupils strive to reflect the school's core value of respect and feel happy and safe at school. The school is ambitious for all pupils to achieve well and leaves them well prepared for their next stage of education.

Strengths:

• Pupils strive to reflect the school's core value of respect and feel happy and safe at school.
• The school is ambitious for all pupils to achieve well and leaves them well prepared for their next stage of education.
• Pupils are polite and well-mannered towards members of the school community.
• The school places a high priority on pupils being positive citizens and making a positive contribution to the community.
• Pupils develop a deep and meaningful understanding of British values, such as democracy, and are exceptionally well prepared for life in modern Britain.

Areas to improve:

• In a small number of wider curriculum subjects, the school has not set out in sufficient detail the key knowledge that pupils should learn and the order in which it should be taught.
• For a very small number of pupils with SEND, access to the curriculum is not adapted consistently well, which means that these pupils struggle to learn as well as they should.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.