St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Bloxwich

Overview: Pupils feel safe and valued at St Peter's Catholic Primary School, where leaders and staff want the best for pupils and are working hard to improve outcomes in reading and mathematics. The school is moving forward in the right direction.

Strengths:

• Pupils feel safe and valued at the school.
• The school's approach to teaching phonics helps pupils to become confident readers.
• The mathematics curriculum is carefully sequenced, and children make a strong start in the early years by learning about numbers.
• Pupils learn to be responsible citizens and contribute to the local community by raising funds for charities and supporting local food banks.

Areas to improve:

• Not enough pupils reach the expected standard in writing because some pupils have not yet developed the skills to write for different audiences, to use punctuation and grammar skills correctly, or write neatly.
• The changes to the wider curriculum planning are recent, and pupils have historical gaps in their learning.
• Some parents have mixed views of the school's work, commenting that communication from the school is not as effective as it could be.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.