St Paul’s CofE Primary School N11

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The headteacher and deputy headteacher have rapidly addressed the key weaknesses that were in the school. Their highly effective actions have improved the school significantly over the last year.

Leaders and governors have a strong impact on the quality of education that the school provides. Governors have an incisive understanding of the school's strengths and weaknesses. They have provided stability to the school through some challenging periods.

Teaching and learning across the school are good. Pupils make good progress in reading, writing and mathematics in both key stages. Pupils enjoy reading and achieve well.

Most pupils r...ead with confidence and can talk about their preferred authors. Pupils benefit from a broad and balanced curriculum. They have many opportunities to learn about interesting topics.

The pupil premium funding is used effectively to provide intervention teaching for disadvantaged pupils. This has improved their progress. Opportunities for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development are rich and woven through the curriculum.

Pupils are well prepared for life in modern Britain. Strong provision in early years gives children a good start to their education. Children are happy and make good progress.

Most children are ready for Year 1 by the time they finish their Reception Year. Pupils' behaviour around the school is good. They show respect to each other and to adults.

They are polite and welcoming to visitors. The school puts a high priority on pupils' welfare. Procedures for safeguarding pupils are effective.

As a result, pupils say that they feel safe. Sometimes, teachers do not challenge pupils enough, which limits the progress they make over time. This is particularly the case for the most able pupils.

Teachers are not consistently effective at using information about pupils' previous learning to plan work that is matched to their learning needs. Some subject leaders are new to the job and are not yet sufficiently skilled in monitoring and evaluation. Leaders' actions to deepen pupils' knowledge and understanding in subjects other than English and mathematics are new.

Their actions have had insufficient time to show sustained impact.

Information about this school

The school is slightly smaller than the average-sized primary school. It has one class in each year group.

Pupils come from a wide range of backgrounds. The largest groups are White British, from other White backgrounds and from Black African backgrounds. The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is well above average.

The proportion of pupils with SEND is below average. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils supported by the pupil premium is slightly below that found nationally. The number of pupils who join and leave the school at other than the usual times is close to the national average.

The current headteacher joined the school as a consultant headteacher in September 2017. She was appointed to her substantive post in January 2018. The school's most recent section 48 inspection took place on 22 September 2014.