The Annunciation Catholic Infant School

Overview: The Annunciation Catholic Infant School is a good school where pupils are happy and well cared for. They are taught a broad and rich curriculum and are well prepared for the next stages of their education.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy and well cared for, with a strong sense of community and respect for each other and adults.
• Staff are strong role models and provide a calm and orderly environment.
• Leaders support teachers to identify the needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and adapt learning to help them access the same curriculum as their peers.
• Pupils are taught about diversity and are encouraged to be respectful of other faiths and cultures.
• Leaders provide a range of clubs and activities to enrich the curriculum and promote personal development.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects, leaders do not identify the key content that pupils need to learn, which limits the development of pupils' deeper knowledge in these subjects.
• Occasionally, teaching does not follow leaders' agreed approach to teaching phonics and early reading, which means that occasionally pupils do not benefit from a consistent approach to developing their early reading confidence and fluency.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders knowing their school community extremely well and staff being well trained to keep pupils safe.