The Bishops' Church of England and Roman Catholic Primary School

Overview: The Bishops' Church of England and Roman Catholic Primary School is a good school where pupils are happy, enthusiastic, and eager to learn. The school provides a calm and joyful environment, with staff who are proud and happy to work there.

Strengths:

• Pupils are enthusiastic about their learning and want to do their best in lessons.
• The school provides many opportunities to enrich the curriculum, including celebrating diversity and other cultures.
• Behaviour is exemplary, with pupils rising to the high expectations of staff and demonstrating consideration for others.
• The school is highly inclusive, with classrooms that are calm and joyful, and staff who manage pupils with complex behaviour well.
• Leaders have developed an interesting and thought-provoking curriculum that provides experiences for pupils to apply their learning in a variety of ways.

Areas to improve:

• In a few foundation subjects, leaders have not yet identified the key content that they want pupils to remember, and opportunities to revisit and recall prior learning are not consistently well planned.
• Pupils have differing experiences according to whether the teacher remembers to revisit information and make connections across learning.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with a strong safeguarding culture at the school, staff who know pupils very well, and a good understanding of the risks that pupils face.