All Saints R.C. Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

The staff at All Saints Roman Catholic Primary School create a warm, friendly and inclusive environment with the pupils' well-being at its heart.

Nearly all pupils are happy and enjoy coming to school. They show respect to all staff and visitors and show concern for each other. Pupils' behaviour across the school is very good.

Most pupils have positive attitudes to their learning and when given the opportunity, contribute well to what and how they learn. Teachers are beginning to develop a curriculum in line with the principles of Curriculum for `Wales and engage pupils well in their learning. However, teachers' expectations of what pupils can achieve are often too low and over-direction from adults impacts on pupils' abil...ity to develop as independent learners.

Although staff praise pupils for their achievements, written feedback does not help pupils improve their work well enough. From low starting points, many pupils develop their speaking and listening skills effectively. They have a sound understanding of number and they are beginning to apply their numeracy and digital skills to other areas of learning.

However, pupils' ability to write at length is less well developed. Overall, the headteacher, staff and governors have a good understanding of many of the school's strengths and areas for development. However, their ability to identify the most important area for improvement, such as the quality of the curriculum, is not effective enough.

Recommendations R1 Strengthen self-evaluation and planning for improvement procedures in order to address the most important areas for improvement R2 Ensure that the curriculum builds systematically and coherently and allows pupils to make choices in how and what they learn in order to develop their skills as independent learners R3 Ensure that teaching consistently provides appropriate challenge and feedback from staff helps pupils improve their work