St Teresa Catholic Primary School

Overview: St Teresa Catholic Primary School has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection. Pupils love to be at this school and enjoy being part of this supportive community, where they are proud of each other and their teachers. They attend well, work hard, and are aspirational for their future lives.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy and feel safe, with staff providing guidance and support.
• Pupils achieve well and make appropriate progress through the curriculum, especially in reading and mathematics.
• Staff have high expectations and pupils behave well, with clear rules and consequences.
• Pupils are compassionate towards their peers, showing empathy and kindness.
• The school has designed ambitious curriculums for all subjects, setting out precisely what teachers need to teach and when.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects, the school does not coherently check pupils’ understanding and then adapt teaching accordingly, leading to some pupils finding the work too hard and not progressing as securely through the curriculum.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.