St George's CofE Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 28 March 2023

Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), enjoy all that this school has to offer. They embrace the wealth of cultures that make up their diverse school community. Pupils know that leaders and staff expect them to be ready, respectful and safe. Pupils follow these school rules well. Their positive attitudes help to make the school a happy place to learn. Pupils benefit from the warm relationships that they develop with staff. Pupils trust adults in school to help them whenever they need it. Leaders deal with incidents, including bullying, quickly and effectively. Pupils feel safe in school. Pupils appreciate the variety of activities available to them. They take part in a range of sporting clubs and weekly enrichment afternoons with enthusiasm. This helps pupils to discover and develop new talents and interests. Leaders have high academic expectations for all pupils. They have improved the curriculum to help pupils to know and remember more over time. Pupils achieve well across a broader range of subjects as a result. However, children in the early years do not learn equally well across all areas of the curriculum. Some children are not as well prepared for their next steps as they should be.

What the school should improve

• Some subject leaders have had insufficient time to check on the quality of curriculum implementation in their subjects. This means that these leaders do not know how consistently well the curriculum is being implemented across the school. As they embed their newly refined curriculums, subject leaders should check that staff are delivering these curriculums as intended.
• Leaders' approaches to assessment are at an earlier stage in some subjects. This means that, sometimes, teachers do not use assessment strategies consistently well to support pupils to remember key knowledge. Leaders should make sure that teachers are fully equipped to support pupils to embed and use knowledge fluently.
• Leaders have not ensured that staff in the Nursery Year have the expertise to design learning that builds on what children know and can do already. This means that some children in the early years are not as well prepared for their next stage of education as they should be. Leaders should ensure that they provide staff with suitable guidance so that they can deliver the curriculum in the early years equally well.

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