St Urban's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy

Overview: St Urban's Catholic Primary School is a warm, welcoming school community where pupils, parents, and staff are proud to be members. The school's Catholic ethos and values of 'living, learning and growing together' thread through all aspects of school life, creating a culture of calm, kind, and thoughtful behaviour.

Strengths:

• Pupils are taught about character virtues and strengths that can support decision-making, positive relationships, and life in the wider world.
• Leaders have high expectations of all pupils, creating a calm and highly positive environment that allows pupils to develop exceptional attitudes and behaviours.
• The school's approach to noticing good behaviours and positive behaviours shines out, and pupils have a strong regard for each other.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should improve staff training to ensure that the phonics programme is delivered consistently well, enabling all pupils to become fluent readers.
• Teachers do not consistently make the necessary adaptations to their teaching to enable pupils with SEND to gain the knowledge they need, and leaders should train teachers on how to make appropriate adaptations to teaching.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with safeguarding leaders working closely with families, staff, and external agencies to maintain a strong focus on pupils' safety and welfare.