St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School

Overview: St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School is a good school where leaders encourage pupils to develop a lifelong love of learning. The school feels like a family, and parents and carers typically report that the teachers are very helpful. Pupils are safe and behave sensibly in class and around the school.

Strengths:

• Leaders have designed a curriculum that is broad and balanced, ambitious for all pupils, including those with SEND.
• Pupils are taught to be kind and respectful towards each other, and they play together nicely at break and lunchtimes.
• The approach to reading is well-organised, and leaders develop pupils' love of reading through regular sessions to support pupils to improve their fluency and confidence.
• Leaders provide pupils with leadership opportunities, and pupils are keen to become library monitors, house captains, or a member of the school council.
• The school has strong published academic outcomes in 2022 across several areas, including writing.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects, the school has not isolated and sequenced the key knowledge that pupils need to know and remember across all year groups.
• In a few subjects, leaders' and teachers' subject knowledge is not as strong as it could be.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders having up-to-date, clear, and accurate safeguarding policies, and teachers being aware of local safeguarding risks that pupils may face.