St Peter’s CofE Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

Pupils make good progress and leave Year 6 with standards that are well above average. Provision in the Early Years is good. There is a strong focus on helping children to quickly develop the best possible learning habits.

The school's partnership with parents is outstanding. The teaching of early reading is outstanding; consequently, pupils make rapid progress and are avid readers by the end of Year 2. Teachers have high expectations of the most-able pupils, who make consistently good progress.

Behaviour is often exemplary. Pupils are thoughtful, well-mannered and considerate of others. Pupils feel very safe in school and their... understanding of how to stay safe when using the internet is excellent.

The school provides exceptionally well for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. The headteacher is a strong leader, who is well supported by other managers and governors. Together they have improved teaching and achievement, especially of the most-able pupils.

Leaders' evaluations of teaching are accurate and clearly identify what each teacher can do to improve. The school has shown good improvement since it was last inspected. Key weaknesses at that time are now strengths in the school's provision.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : Pupils of middle ability do not always make good progress in mathematics, because teachers move them on to new work too quickly. Teachers do not give these pupils sufficient opportunities to revisit and revise topics that they do not fully understand. Not all teachers insist that pupils respond to the comments they write in their books.

Leaders, including governors, do not analyse the performance of pupils of differing abilities in sufficient depth.

Information about this school

The school is much smaller than the average-sized primary school. Almost all pupils are White British.

Around one pupil in thirty is disabled or has special educational needs and is supported at school action. This proportion is well below the average for other schools. Around one pupil in fifteen is disabled or has special educational needs and is supported through school action plus or has a statement of special educational needs.

This proportion is average. Around one in 10 pupils is supported through the pupil premium (additional funding for pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and looked-after children); this proportion is below the national average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in English and mathematics.

The headteacher is a Local Leader of Education. In the last academic year she has provided support for: Woodlands Primary School, Tamworth; Great Wood Primary School, Tean; Redbrook Hayes Primary School, Rugeley and Berkswich Primary School, Stafford. The support has been aimed at helping the schools to improve or to support the appointment of a new headteacher.