St Paul's CofE Primary School

Overview: St Paul's CofE Primary School is a good school where pupils are proud and happy to attend, and teachers develop strong and supportive relationships with them. Pupils achieve well, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and behave well and feel safe in school.

Strengths:

• Pupils are proud and happy to attend a warm and welcoming school.
• Teachers develop strong and supportive relationships with pupils.
• Pupils achieve well, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Leaders provide a wide range of opportunities for pupils to develop their interests and talents.
• The school provides a solid foundation for life in a modern, multicultural society.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects, leaders have not defined the essential knowledge that pupils should learn, which hinders some pupils' ability to build a rich body of subject knowledge.
• Leaders have recognised that there are inconsistencies in the approach to teaching early reading, which hinders the development of phonic knowledge for some children.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.