St Luke's CofE Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 13 May 2025

St Luke's CofE Primary School is a warm and welcoming school. Pupils are happy. They enjoy positive relationships with staff and receive high-quality pastoral care and support. The school knows the pupils and their families well. It teaches pupils that they are unique and valued as individuals. Pupils are proud of the fact that everyone at their school is treated equally. Pupils know they need to be 'ready, respectful and safe'. They follow these school rules closely. At playtime, they socialise well together by playing games and making dens. In lessons, pupils follow routines. Teachers use language that is encouraging, supportive and helpful. They recognise pupils' achievements and efforts by rewarding them with house points. This builds their confidence. Regular celebration assemblies help to build a strong sense of community. While there are high expectations for pupils' achievement, these have not been realised in recent years. This is reflected in the results pupils achieve in assessments sat at the end of key stage 2. Over time, pupils have not been as prepared as they need to be for the next stage of their learning. Leaders have begun to improve the areas of the curriculum that need it. The impact of this work is in its early stages.

What the school should improve

• Some of the school's strategies to support pupils with SEND vary in their effectiveness. Occasionally, some pupils with SEND do not access aspects of the curriculum or achieve as well as they could. The school should ensure there is greater consistency and high ambition in the support and adaptations for pupils with SEND, so that they can achieve consistently well.
• Sometimes, teachers do not check pupils' understanding effectively. This leads to gaps in pupils' knowledge, unidentified misconceptions and missed opportunities to secure and deepen pupils' understanding. As a result, some pupils do not secure or deepen their learning as well as they could. The school should ensure that teachers check pupils' understanding carefully so that gaps in learning are identified and addressed, and that pupils' knowledge is deepened.
• Some pupils' resilience and skills to learn independently are not as developed as they could be. This is limiting some pupils' academic and social development. The school should further develop ways to build pupils' resilience and skills to learn independently, ensuring this positively impacts on pupils' academic and social development.

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