St Paul's and All Hallows CofE Junior School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 28 March 2023

Leaders are kind and supportive here. They encourage pupils to be compassionate, brave, friendly and wise. They also emphasise the importance of forgiveness. These are values which pupils know and discuss with confidence. Leaders have created a curriculum that meets the needs of all pupils that attend the school, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Leaders expect pupils to do their best, and they support pupils to do so. Leaders have particularly high expectations of pupils' behaviour. They support pupils to meet these expectations at all times. As a result, pupils are kind to each other, happy at school and consistently polite. They interact with their peers and with adults with respect, courtesy and warmth. Leaders organise many clubs and activities to expand pupils' interests and knowledge of the wider world. All pupils are taught to play competitive chess. Leaders run popular clubs, including vet, eco and football. Pupils also contribute to decisions about the school. For example, leaders organised a new gymnastics club following a request from the pupils' parliament.

What the school should improve

• In a few subjects, leaders' curriculum thinking does not have sufficient clarity with regard to the body of essential knowledge and skills they want pupils to learn and the order in which they want pupils to learn it. In these subjects, pupils do not know and remember and cannot do as much as they could. Leaders should ensure that all the specific knowledge and skills that pupils need are identified and clearly sequenced so that pupils successfully build their curriculum knowledge over time.
• In a few other subjects, teachers do not teach the curriculum in line with leaders' intentions. Sometimes teaching does not address pupils' misconceptions as frequently or as well as it should. This leaves gaps in some pupils' knowledge and makes it difficult for them to build up their knowledge and understanding in a coherent way. Leaders should ensure that the intended curriculum in these subjects is taught in line with curriculum plans. They should also make sure that teachers have the appropriate subject knowledge to teach these subjects as effectively as possible.

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