St Chad’s CofE Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The headteacher, ably supported by other leaders and governors, ensures that pupils are provided with a wide range of opportunities to help them thrive socially and academically.

Children make good progress from their starting points in the early years due to good teaching and well-planned activities that stimulate their interest. The recently established Nursery class is helping to enhance provision further for children from the time they start in school. Teachers make learning relevant and exciting for pupils.

As a result, pupils make good progress across all subjects as they move through the school. However, teachers' expectations of w...hat the most able pupils can and should achieve, especially in writing, are not always high enough. The teaching of reading is particularly effective and pupils develop a love of reading and a deep understanding of what they have read.

Teachers ensure that pupils are provided with good opportunities to apply their reading, writing and mathematical skills in other subjects. However, in mathematics teachers do not consistently provide enough opportunities for pupils to apply their computational skills and knowledge in problem-solving using reasoning. Leaders ensure that pupils develop as compassionate and caring individuals who are well prepared for life in modern Britain.

The promotion of pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is a strength of the school. Pupils say they feel safe in school and are provided by staff with valuable and relevant information on how they can keep themselves safe. The overwhelming majority of pupils are well behaved and show highly positive attitudes to learning.

While leaders have taken strong, effective and appropriate action to address unacceptable behaviour from a very small minority of pupils, they are aware that there is a need to ensure that the school's agreed behaviour policy is applied fully and accurately by all staff. Leaders have an accurate view of the school's strengths and have been proactive in identifying how it can improve further. Plans for improvement focus on the most important priorities for the school.

However, a lack of clearly defined success criteria means that leaders cannot always accurately measure the full impact of the actions that they have taken.

Information about this school

The school does not meet requirements on the publication of information about the most recent key stage 2 results on its website. St Chad's CofE Primary School is smaller than the average-sized primary school.

The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is below average. The large majority of pupils are White British. The proportion of pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities is above the national average The school meets the government's current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics for pupils in Year 6.