St Patrick's Catholic Primary School

Overview: Pupils are thriving at this exceptionally welcoming school, where everybody has a smile on their faces. Pupils enjoy an excellent all-round education, are happy, achieve highly and grow into confident and responsible individuals.

Strengths:

• Pupils are thriving in an exceptionally welcoming school.
• Pupils enjoy an excellent all-round education.
• Pupils are happy, achieve highly and grow into confident and responsible individuals.
• Pupils’ behaviour is exemplary.
• Pupils relish the vast range of opportunities the school provides, which develop their independence and sense of responsibility.
• Pupils get off to a great start from the early years and go on to achieve outcomes by the end of Year 6 that are well above national averages.
• Children benefit from a vocabulary-rich setting that develops their early language and communication skills successfully.
• Pupils make particularly strong progress in developing their early reading skills.
• Staff deliver the school’s phonics programme expertly.
• Pupils benefit from a highly ambitious and stimulating curriculum, which fosters their positive attitudes to learning.
• Art and design and music are significant strengths.
• Pupils are very well prepared for life beyond the school.
• They develop mature social and emotional skills and learn how their brains and bodies work.
• The school’s work to provide career education is inspirational.
• Pupils learn through the curriculum and the extensive programme of trips and visiting speakers about a wide range of future careers that they could pursue.
• Leaders’ drive to improve the school has not been at the expense of staff well-being.
• Leaders treat staff with consideration and are mindful of workload.
• The staff love coming to work as the school feels like a family community.
• Governors are supportive and take their responsibilities seriously.

Areas to improve: The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.