The Canon Peter Hall CofE Primary School

Overview: The Canon Peter Hall CofE Primary School continues to be a good school, providing a calm and orderly environment where pupils behave well and enjoy coming to school. Pupils are polite, respectful, and friendly to each other and adults.

Strengths:

• Pupils behave well and enjoy coming to school.
• Staff have high expectations of pupils' learning and behaviour.
• The school is a calm and orderly environment that is very well looked after.
• Leaders have developed an ambitious curriculum that prepares pupils for high school and the world of work.
• Pupils learn about a range of job and career opportunities, and teachers make learning purposeful for pupils.

Areas to improve:

• Some adults do not have the expertise to help pupils apply their phonic knowledge when reading, which means some pupils at the earliest stages of reading do not learn to read as quickly as they could.
• In a few subjects, such as design and technology, curriculum plans do not set out the essential knowledge and skills that leaders want pupils to learn and remember.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with a strong culture of safeguarding and leaders ensuring that the correct procedures are followed when appointing new staff.