St Monica's Primary School

Overview

Inspectors found the school is “led very ably” with “highly-positive relationships” fostering a proud community. The report highlights effective leadership and strong partnerships, noting that staff and children make “valuable and considered improvements” to the school.

Strengths

• Leadership is described as “very good,” with senior leaders developing “very effective approaches to gathering and analysing data” to drive improvement.
• Teachers’ “highly skilled use of digital technologies” supports children well, helping them develop “sophisticated skills” and showcase their learning.
• High-quality planning for listening and talking has resulted in “improved outcomes” and increased attainment, making children “very articulate and confident.”
• The school ensures “very good” wellbeing, equality, and inclusion, with a “relentless focus on caring for the environment and others.”

Areas to improve

• Teachers should improve the “consistency of learning and teaching across the curriculum” by planning direct teaching experiences that provide the “right level of challenge.”
• Staff need to “raise attainment and accelerate children’s progress in literacy and numeracy” through a continued focus on national standards.

Safeguarding

The report states that the quality indicator for “Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion” is evaluated as “very good.”