Stratford St Mary Primary School

Overview:

Pupils enjoy attending this friendly, community school, where they benefit from an interesting and engaging curriculum. They thrive in a warm and welcoming environment, with excellent relationships with adults and a strong sense of community. Pupils behave well, listen to instructions, and follow school rules.

Strengths:

• Pupils enjoy attending this friendly, community school.
• Pupils thrive in a warm and welcoming environment.
• Pupils have excellent relationships with adults.
• Pupils behave well, listen to instructions, and follow school rules.
• The school has high expectations for what pupils should achieve.
• Adults are skilled at delivering the curriculum to mixed-age classes.
• Staff provide clarification if any pupils are unsure about the learning.
• The school ensures that pupils benefit from effective teaching that helps them learn to read.
• The school has ensured that pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are well supported.
• Adults make sure that children experience a varied range of activities that support their development through the curriculum.
• Expectations for how pupils should behave are high.

Areas to improve:

• A small minority of subject curriculum plans do not clearly distinguish what pupils of different ages should be able to do when they are taught in mixed-age classes.
• This means that older pupils are not consistently being given enough opportunities to build on the additional skills and knowledge that they have.

Safeguarding:

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.