Our Lady’s RC Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

The headteacher's and deputy headteacher's relentless drive for improvement has resulted in significant improvement to teaching, pupils' achievement and behaviour. Pupils across the school make good progress because teaching is good and sometimes outstanding. A varied range of activities caters for the different abilities and interests of pupils and ensures good attention in lessons.

Pupils are proud of and care about themselves, each other and the school. They enjoy school and want to do well. Pupils' warm welcome to new starters helps them to make friends quickly and, in particular, helps those who speak another language to learn Engli...sh rapidly.

Governors ensure that staff training is making a positive difference to the quality of teaching and pupils' progress. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Teachers do not share and review targets with pupils often enough to help them to make the necessary improvements to their work independently. Pupils are not always given enough opportunity in lessons to talk about their learning and so develop their vocabulary and language skills.

Information about individual pupils' progress is not used sufficiently to identify whether all groups of pupils are making enough progress throughout the year in order to reach the school's challenging targets for their attainment.

Information about this school

Our Lady's Roman Catholic Primary School is smaller than the average-sized primary school. The proportion of pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds is above average.

The majority of pupils are from White British backgrounds. The next largest group is of pupils from Eastern Europe, mostly Poland. The remainder of pupils are from a number of different minority ethnic backgrounds.

An above-average proportion of pupils speak English as an additional language. An above-average proportion of pupils, many of whom speak little or no English, join the school in Years 5 and 6. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs supported through school action is below average.

The proportion supported at school action plus and with a statement of special educational needs is above average. Most of these pupils have either specific or moderate learning difficulties, speech, language and communication needs, visual or hearing impairment and behavioural difficulties. A below-average proportion of the pupils are known to be eligible for the pupil premium, which provides additional funding for children in local authority care, pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and those who have a parent in the armed services.

The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expected standard for pupils' attainment and progress. The school makes use of alternative provision off site for a very small number of pupils with specific needs. The onsite breakfast club and after-school club are not managed by the governing body and are inspected separately.

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