St Michael’s CofE Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

All groups of pupils make good progress from their starting points because of good teaching. Teachers ensure that pupils' progress is regularly checked in all classes. As a result, pupils are clear about their goals and how to improve.

Teaching has improved since the previous inspection and there is some high quality practice. The needs of all pupils are met through good quality resources and effective planning. Behaviour is consistently good and pupils feel very safe at school.

They are well looked after and cared for. Pupils develop good personal and social skills through opportunities to help each other. Across all subjects t...here are good opportunities for pupils to practise their literacy and numeracy skills.

The leadership team throughout the school is ambitious for pupils and staff. They have secured considerable improvement in the quality of teaching and pupils' achievement since the previous inspection and continually strive to develop the school further. Governors and school leaders hold teachers to account for the progress of their pupils through effective performance management procedures.

This has led to improvements in teaching and achievement. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Teachers do not always use information on pupils' progress well enough to plan the next steps in learning. This means that pupils do not make the fastest progress all of the time.

Middle leaders do not all make effective use of information on pupils' progress to raise achievement and improve the quality of teaching.

Information about this school

The school is smaller than most primary schools. The school is part of a soft federation with a local Church of England primary school.

There is an executive headteacher and a head of school. Pupils come from mainly White British, Black African and Black Caribbean heritages. An above average proportion of pupils speak English as an additional language of whom an above average proportion are at the early stages of learning English.

The proportion of pupils supported at school action, school action plus and with a statement of special educational need is above average. The proportion of pupils for whom the school receives additional income, through the pupil premium funding, is above average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress.