St Catherine’s CofE Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The headteacher provides strong leadership.

She is very ambitious and has high expectations of staff and pupils. Pupils make good progress and achieve well through the school. By the end of Year 6, pupils' attainment in English and mathematics is above average.

Pupils' attainment in writing is particularly high. Teaching is usually good and sometimes outstanding. Pupils' behaviour and their attitudes to learning are exemplary.

They say they feel very safe in school at all times. The school promotes pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development in an outstanding way. The curriculum provides a wide range of stimulating ...activities that encourage a love of learning.

Leaders and governors work well together to raise pupils' achievement and improve the quality of teaching. The school's actions to bring about improvement are carefully planned and effective. The care and welfare of pupils is central to the work of the school.

Parents are very supportive of the school and appreciative of the care taken of their children. The ability of leaders, managers and governors to carry on making improvements is good. It is not yet an outstanding school because : On a few occasions, it is not always clear to pupils what they need to do to achieve success in their learning.

At times, pupils' understanding while they are learning is not always checked effectively in order for changes to be made to take learning on more quickly. The skills of governors in stringently holding senior leaders to account for the school's performance are not yet fully developed.

Information about this school

St Catherine's is an average-sized primary school.

The proportion of pupils supported at school action is below average. The proportion of pupils supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is also below average. The proportion of pupils eligible for support through the pupil premium is average.

The pupil premium provides additional funding for those pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals and those children who are looked after by the local authority. Most pupils are of White British heritage. The school meets the government's current floor standard, which is the minimum expectation for attainment and progress in English and mathematics.

The headteacher is a local leader of education. The privately managed before- and after-school provision is inspected separately and the report published on the Ofsted website (www.ofsted.

gov.uk). The school has gained a number of national awards, including Artsmark and Activemark, and holds Healthy School status.