St Peter's CofE Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 1 April 2025

Pupils attending this school do not receive an acceptable standard of education. In recent years, pupils' achievement in some subjects in end of key stage 2 statutory assessments has been significantly lower than pupils nationally. Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are not provided with consistently high-quality support. Some pupils' needs are not appropriately identified or met. The school's ambition and expectations for pupils with SEND is not high enough. Consequently, pupils with SEND do not achieve well. Most pupils behave well. They are polite and friendly. They engage in their learning. However, a significant minority of pupils, some of whom have SEND, do not behave well in class and around school. This disrupts pupils' learning. It also causes staff and pupils to feel unsafe. Some pupils experience bullying. Some pupils are not respectful to others. They use racist and homophobic language. The school does not address incidents of poor behaviour appropriately. Pupils do not have confidence that the school will deal with their concerns. The school supports pupils to learn how to keep themselves physically healthy. Some pupils participate in the small number of clubs that the school offers. The school is developing an increasing range of leadership opportunities for pupils. These include roles such as school councillors and collective worship ambassadors.

What the school should improve

• The school has not established a positive culture of safeguarding. It does not consistently identify, manage and respond to the risks that pupils may encounter. The school must ensure that its safeguarding practice is robust by enabling pupils and staff to report concerns with confidence and that concerns are responded to in an appropriate and timely manner.
• Some aspects of the school's curriculum are at an early stage of implementation. It is too early to demonstrate its impact on pupils' learning. The school should ensure that its curriculum enables pupils, including those with SEND, to achieve well.
• Teachers do not adapt learning for pupils with SEND consistently well. When this is the case, pupils with SEND struggle to access their learning. The school should ensure that teachers are appropriately trained in how to adapt learning and successfully apply this across the curriculum.
• The school does not manage some pupils' behaviour or analyse incidents of poor behaviour consistently well. Pupils' learning is disrupted and some pupils do not get the support that they need to succeed. The school must ensure that its behaviour expectations are consistently applied and that it has an accurate view of the impact of its actions to support pupils in class and around school.
• The school does not have a clear approach to improving rates of attendance. Some pupils are absent for significant periods. The school should develop a coherent and consistent approach to support pupils to attend school regularly.
• The school and trust do not fully take into account the impact of actions to improve the school on staff workload and well-being. Staff morale is low. Some do not have confidence in the school or trust's ability to improve the situation. Leaders, including those with responsibility for governance, must ensure that they consider, and take appropriate steps to support, the workload and well-being of staff in the actions they take to improve the school.
• Pupils have a limited understanding of protected characteristics. Some pupils use discriminatory language. The school should ensure that pupils develop an age- appropriate understanding of protected characteristics.
• The school does not provide children in the early years with sufficient opportunities to rehearse and extend their thinking. Children do not develop their thinking and learning as well as they could. The school should ensure that activities in provision and adults' interactions support children in deepening their understanding. HMCI strongly recommends that the school does not seek to appoint early career teachers. The position regarding the appointment of early career teachers will be considered again during any monitoring inspection we carry out.

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