St Peter's CofE Primary School

Overview

This ungraded inspection confirms that St Peter’s CofE Primary School has “taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection.” The school provides a “caring and supportive environment” where pupils are happy, feel safe, and “can flourish.” Leaders and governors are described as effective, with a sharp focus on maintaining high expectations and supporting staff well-being.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate “excellent” conduct, with a “calm and purposeful” learning atmosphere where they “relish the opportunity to talk about their learning.”
• The curriculum is “broad and ambitious,” with a “sharp focus on communication and language” and expert phonics teaching ensuring pupils become “confident and fluent readers.”
• Staff “skilfully adapt the curriculum” to support pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), who “access the same ambitious curriculum as their peers and achieve well.”
• The provision for pupils’ broader development is a strength, offering “a multitude of opportunities” including sports, music, and leadership roles that prepare pupils to be “responsible, respectful and active citizens.”
• Governance is a strength, with governors who “know the school well and provide support and appropriate challenge where needed.”

Areas to improve

• The school must improve assessment processes in “wider foundation subjects,” as checks on pupils’ learning are “not as effective as they could be” and remain “in its infancy.”
• Staff require further skills and knowledge to “identify and support gaps and misconceptions in pupils’ learning in wider curriculum subjects” to ensure essential knowledge is secured before moving on.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”