St Paul's Church of England Primary School

Overview: St Paul's Church of England Primary School is a warm, nurturing and community-centred school where pupils' wellbeing is of utmost importance. Staff ensure that pupils are happy, safe and able to enjoy and succeed in their learning, regardless of their background or barriers to learning and/or wellbeing. Pupils, in particular disadvantaged pupils, achieve well here and make positive progress from their starting points.

Strengths:

• Pupils typically achieve well at this school, making sustained progress through the curriculum from their respective starting points.
• Disadvantaged pupils achieve consistently highly and typically above disadvantaged pupils nationally at key stage 2.
• Attendance is an ongoing priority for leaders, with overall attendance having improved in the last 2 years and being close to the national average.
• Leaders have established a culture where positive behaviour is both the expectation and the norm, with classrooms being calm and pupils learning without disruption.
• The teaching of reading, writing and mathematics is at the core of the curriculum, with leaders prioritising further improvements in pupils' writing skills.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should ensure that the curriculum and teaching are highly effective in all areas so that pupils consistently achieve high standards.
• Leaders should continue to refine adaptations to learning so that these are skilfully adjusted as needed, particularly in the wider curriculum.
• Leaders should continue their work with families to secure consistently high attendance for pupils.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.