St Saviour's Catholic Primary School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 2 July 2024

This school is full of happy pupils who are polite and respectful to each other and the staff. Families feel part of the school community through the regular and useful information they receive. They enjoy attending school events, such as the recent summer fair and workshops which help them to understand what their children learn at school. Pupils have embraced the recent changes to the school's behaviour system and rise to the high expectations of the 'beehaviour code'. They enjoy receiving their bee stickers and earning reward points. In lessons, pupils work hard and are enthusiastic about their learning. At break and lunchtimes, pupils sensibly select equipment to create games with their friends. The school's 'trim trail' is extremely popular, where pupils of all ages enjoy playing together. There have been significant changes to the school's leadership team this year. Leaders have been supported well by the local authority and diocese in bringing about rapid improvement to strengthen the curriculum and pupils' learning. This has been managed in a skilful away, with a shared passion and determination across the whole staff team, to improve pupils' educational outcomes. However, in many subjects, due to its infancy, this recent work has yet to benefit pupils' learning. Consequently, pupils do not currently achieve as well as they could.

What the school should improve

• Expectations about pupils' writing are not high enough nor consistently applied. As a result, pupils do not develop the writing stamina and skills they should. The school should ensure that their ongoing staff training and work to develop curriculum implementation leads to pupils developing their writing skills and consequently achieving well.
• Lesson tasks and activities, and feedback about learning, do not always help pupils to learn what was intended. This means that pupils develop gaps in their learning and do not have their misconceptions addressed. The school must ensure that teachers are supported successfully to deliver the curriculum consistently well, so that pupils accumulate the knowledge and skills they need.
• In some subjects, the existing curriculum is not designed or implemented consistently well. As a result, pupils have not accumulated the knowledge and skills they should. The school must ensure that the recently revised curriculum is fully implemented, to allow pupils to achieve well across the range of subjects they learn.
• The wider curriculum is not adapted well enough for pupils with SEND. This means that these pupils do not always have the support and scaffolds which they need to be successful with their learning. The school must ensure that pupils with SEND are supported appropriately across the entire curriculum.

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