St Anne’s Catholic Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school School leaders have created a caring and warm learning environment where pupils feel safe. Teaching is of good quality and senior leaders make sure that staff are constantly seeking to improve their practice. The broad and interesting curriculum supports pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development well.

Children in the early years are happy and secure and make good progress. Governors are ambitious for the school and provide effective challenge and support to senior leaders. Pupils behave well and show positive attitudes to their learning.

Parents express overwhelming support for the school and are very happy with the variet...y of experiences it provides for their children. Most-able pupils are not consistently challenged, which means that they do not make progress from their starting points as quickly as others. Leaders of subjects other than English and mathematics do not evaluate the impact of their actions on pupils' achievement.

Pupils' writing skills are improving but are not as strong as their reading and mathematical skills.

Information about this school

The school does not meet requirements on the publication of information on its website about the content of the school's curriculum; current key stage 2 performance data; strategies for the use of pupil premium and sport premium funding for the current academic year; and the effectiveness of provision for pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities. The school is aware of these issues and has taken action to address them.

St Anne's Catholic Primary School is larger than average in size. The percentages of pupils from minority ethnic groups and who speak English as an additional language are well below the national averages. The proportion of pupils who receive support in school for their special educational needs and/or disabilities is above the national average.

The proportion of pupils who have an education, health and care plan is the same as the national average. The proportion of pupils who are supported through pupil premium funding is below the national average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set out the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress by the end of key stage 2.