St Mary's Catholic Primary School

Overview: St Mary's Catholic Primary School has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection, with pupils happy and proud to attend, enjoying learning, and making good progress in mathematics.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy and proud to attend the school, feeling safe and knowing that other pupils are kind and caring.
• Pupils enjoy learning, are confident to ask questions and offer ideas, and respond well to staff's high expectations in lessons.
• The school has high expectations around attendance and is working hard to ensure that pupils come to school every day.
• Provision for pupils with SEND and those who are disadvantaged is a strength of the school, with clear systems for swift identification and a pathway of provision to offer additional support.
• Pupils' personal development is a strength of the school, with the personal, social, health and economic curriculum preparing pupils well for life in modern Britain.

Areas to improve:

• Some curriculum changes are not yet fully effective, resulting in pupils not consistently learning key knowledge securely in some subjects.
• In the classroom, pupils who grasp the key knowledge quickly are sometimes not given the opportunity to deepen their understanding.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.