St Peter's Droitwich CofE Academy

Overview

St Peter’s Droitwich CofE Academy has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection. The school is described as a "caring" environment where pupils enjoy "warm relationships" with staff and thrive within a "calm and orderly" setting. Leaders are "highly ambitious" and "relentless" in their drive to improve, ensuring that the broad curriculum enables all pupils, including those with special educational needs, to achieve well.

Strengths

• The curriculum is "well-sequenced" and "ambitious," with local links helping to "bring the curriculum to life."
• Early reading is a priority, supported by a "well-organised approach to teaching phonics" that builds fluency.
• Staff provide "skilful" support for oracy and vocabulary, particularly in English and mathematics.
• The school offers a "wealth of wider extra-curricular opportunities," including community events and leadership roles.
• Staff training is prioritised to adapt learning for pupils with complex special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Areas to improve

• The school should refine attendance systems to ensure all pupils attend regularly enough to benefit fully from the curriculum.
• The school is working to reduce variability in how well a small number of pupils recall and use prior learning in a minority of subjects.
• A small number of pupils are less secure in their knowledge of how people can be different, though a personal development programme is in place.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.