St Thomas More Primary School, Belmont

Highlights from Latest Inspection

evaluation of the school.

• The lead inspector met with the headteacher and with two members of the local governor committee? The lead inspector completed telephone calls with a trustee, the trust's director of standards, the school improvement partner and a representative from the diocese? Inspectors carried out deep dives in these subjects: early reading, mathematics, history, and art and designFor each deep dive, they discussed the curriculum with subject leaders, visited a sample of lessons, spoke to teachers, spoke to some pupils about their learning and looked at samples of pupils' work.

• Inspectors discussed the school's safeguarding procedures with a range of staffThey reviewed the school's documentation r...egarding safeguarding. They discussed how safe pupils feel in school and how staff teach them to stay safe, including online. ? The lead inspector analysed the responses to Ofsted's pupil, staff and parent surveys.

An inspector met some parents at the end of the school day. Inspection team Michael Reeves, lead inspector Ofsted Inspector Deborah Ashcroft Ofsted Inspector The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments.

It assesses council children's services, and inspects services for children looked after, safeguarding and child protection. If you would like a copy of this document in a different format, such as large print or Braille, please telephone 0300 123 1231, or email [email protected].

ukYou may reuse this information (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence. To view this licence, visit www.nationalarchives.

gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/, write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: [email protected].

gov.ukThis publication is available at http://reports.ofsted.

gov.uk/Interested in our work? You can subscribe to our monthly newsletter for more information and updates: http://eepurl.com/iTrDnPiccadilly Gate Store Street Manchester M1 2WD T: 0300 123 1231 Textphone: 0161 618 8524 E: enquiries@ofsted.

gov.uk W: www.gov.

uk/ofsted © Crown copyright 2023

Information about this school

• St Thomas More Catholic Primary converted to become an academy school in September 2021When its predecessor school, St Thomas More Primary School, was last inspected by Ofsted, it was judged to be good overall. ? There have been several changes to staffing since the inspection of the predecessor school. The headteacher was appointed in September 2021.

• The school is in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle and is part of the Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust. ? The school has not been inspected under section 48 since converting to an academy. Trustees are aware of the statutory requirement for the section 48 inspection to be completed within the prescribed period.

• The school uses no alternative providers