Westleigh St Paul's CofE Primary School

Overview

Westleigh St Paul’s CofE Primary School has “taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection.” It is described as a “warm and welcoming school” where pupils are happy, feel safe, and benefit from “kind and encouraging” teachers. The school continues to provide a high-quality education with strong support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Strengths

• Pupils are “happy” and feel “safe, comfortable and confident,” valuing the supportive staff.
• The school “prioritises early reading” and delivers its phonics programme effectively, with most pupils becoming “fluent, confident readers.”
• Teachers use “effective strategies” for regular checks on learning, providing timely feedback to correct errors.
• SEND pupils are identified early and receive well-adapted curriculum delivery, enabling them to “achieve well.”
• Pupils demonstrate good behaviour, are “empathetic,” and take on responsibilities such as being prefects or playleaders.

Areas to improve

• The school should “finalise its curriculum thinking” in some subjects and provide clearer guidance to staff to ensure pupils acquire important knowledge.
• Approaches to evaluating curriculum effectiveness must be made more “robust” to address delivery issues swiftly.
• The governing body should improve its oversight of strategic development to provide better “challenge and support” to leaders.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”