St Stephen's Catholic Primary School

Overview: St Stephen's Catholic Primary School is a welcoming place to be, providing a nurturing environment where pupils can learn well. Staff foster a keen sense of pride among pupils, ensuring they feel happy, safe and secure. Pupils are polite and respectful to each other and to staff, and are aspirational for their futures.

Strengths:

• The school provides a nurturing environment where pupils can learn well.
• Staff foster a keen sense of pride among pupils, ensuring they feel happy, safe and secure.
• Pupils are polite and respectful to each other and to staff.
• The school has established clear expectations for the behaviour of pupils, including for children in the early years.
• Pupils are aspirational for their futures and enjoy learning.

Areas to improve:

• In a small number of subjects, some teachers are not sufficiently clear about the important knowledge that they should teach and when this content should be taught.
• In a few subjects, the school's assessment systems do not support teachers well to check that pupils have learned the knowledge outlined in the curriculum.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.