St Wilfrid's Catholic Junior and Infant School

Overview: St Wilfrid's Catholic Junior and Infant School is a good school where warmth, care, respect, and learning go hand in hand. Pupils show consideration for each other, and the school's cultural diversity forms the backdrop to pupils' learning about a range of faiths and ways of life. The school has high expectations of pupils' behaviour and learning, and many recent changes are now ensuring that pupils meet these expectations by working hard and following the rules.

Strengths:

• The school is a diverse and supportive place to learn, with a strong sense of service to others.
• Pupils demonstrate a strong sense of service to others, enjoying voting to choose which charities to support and participating in trust-wide events.
• The school listens to the voice of pupils and they feel heard.
• The school has a revised curriculum that is working well, with many more pupils, across year groups, working at the level they should be.
• The school has strengthened its identification of, and provision for, pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), improving behaviour for learning and pupils' outcomes.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects, the school has not ensured that the approach for the selection of tasks given to pupils in lessons is always the most appropriate for the intended outcome, resulting in pupils' learning not being consistently secured or extended.
• Teaching in a few subjects moves quickly from one aspect to another and does not enable pupils to remember important curriculum content as well as they do in other areas, resulting in pupils not developing a greater depth of understanding.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.