St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Bishop Auckland

Overview: Pupils flourish at St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, where relationships are strong between adults and pupils, and a calm and purposeful environment is maintained in classrooms. The school has high expectations for pupils' behaviour and achievement.

Strengths:

• Pupils are polite and well mannered, displaying positive attitudes towards their learning.
• The school has a broad and ambitious curriculum that meets the needs of most pupils well.
• Teachers have strong subject knowledge and present learning to pupils clearly.
• Reading is prioritised from the moment children start school, with staff trained to teach early reading effectively.

Areas to improve:

• Sometimes, the curriculum is not suitably adapted to enable all pupils, including those with SEND and those facing disadvantage, to access learning.
• The school swiftly identifies pupils with SEND and those facing disadvantage, but the curriculum is not always suitably adapted to meet their needs.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.