St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School

Overview: St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School is a good school where pupils are enthusiastic about learning, achieve well, and are well prepared for the next stage of their education. The school has a caring ethos where pupils thrive, and parents are overwhelmingly positive about the school.

Strengths:

• Pupils are enthusiastic about learning and achieve well.
• The school has a well-considered and ambitious curriculum that is equally ambitious for all pupils across a broad range of subjects.
• Pupils develop detailed subject knowledge and use this knowledge to make connections in their learning and to explore new ideas.
• The school promotes pupils' personal development well, teaching them the importance of tolerance and respect, and how to develop a healthy lifestyle.
• The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders ensuring that safeguarding is at the forefront of everybody's mind and all staff receiving regular safeguarding training.

Areas to improve:

• Not all staff have received the training they need to support less-confident readers in key stage 2 to develop their reading fluency.
• Some aspects of the early years curriculum are not implemented consistently well across the early years foundation stage.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders ensuring that safeguarding is at the forefront of everybody's mind and all staff receiving regular safeguarding training.