St Mary's CofE (VA) Primary School

Overview: St Mary's CofE (VA) Primary School is a good school where pupils are happy and feel secure, with high levels of respect and consideration for each other. The school has high expectations for pupils' achievement and is achieving these with increasing consistency.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy and feel secure, with a strong sense of welcome and support.
• Pupils behave with high levels of respect and consideration for each other.
• The school has high expectations for pupils' achievement and is achieving these with increasing consistency.
• The curriculum is increasingly secure and consistent across the school.
• The school teaches early reading very well and with a significant degree of consistency.

Areas to improve:

• On occasion, staff do not check if pupils have a secure understanding of their learning, leading to gaps in learning.
• In some lessons, teachers are not using the information provided by the school to adapt learning activities to the needs of pupils with SEND, or the support provided does not enable pupils to work with appropriate independence.
• The school's evaluation of its work in some subjects is at an earlier stage of development, leading to pockets of inconsistency.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.