All Saints Church of England Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this school?

All Saints is a warm, supportive, and aspirational school.

This is a community where everyone matters. Pupils are happy and proud to attend the school. They value the positive relationships that they enjoy with staff and with their peers.

The school expects all pupils to succeed academically and socially. Pupils work hard to live up to these high expectations. Most pupils achieve well across a range of subjects.

Pupils are delighted to be recognised in 'star assemblies' for their positive behaviour and attitudes to school life. Older pupils enjoy taking on responsibilities such as being playground pals. This involves working with younger pupils and acting as ...role models.

Pupils benefit from a range of opportunities which extend beyond the academic curriculum. For example, they visit castles, beaches, and museums. This helps them to gain an understanding of the wider world.

Pupils also learn how to make a positive contribution. They are keen members of the eco and school councils.

Pupils are also encouraged to widen their skills, talents, and interests by taking part in residential visits and clubs such as art, cooking and singing.

These experiences help pupils to build their confidence and prepares them for life beyond school.

What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?

The school knows pupils and their families extremely well. Before children start in the early years, staff make every effort to get to know them.

The school works with parents and carers to help children, including those in the Nursery class, make a confident start in school. Working closely with parents and other professionals, the school swiftly identifies any pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Through this partnership work, the school gains important information about how to support these pupils.

Staff make adaptations to their teaching approaches so that pupils with SEND progress well through the curriculum.

The school has developed an engaging and ambitious curriculum. It has carefully considered the knowledge that pupils should learn and the order in which they will learn it from the early years to Year 6.

Staff are provided with a well-thought-out programme of professional development to enhance their curriculum expertise. As a result, staff have secure subject knowledge. They explain new learning clearly to pupils and design activities that support pupils to acquire the knowledge that they need.

Learning to read is one of the school's top priorities. Children in the Nursery class are introduced to stories and rhymes that develop their early language skills. This prepares them well for learning phonics as soon as they enter the Reception Year.

Staff deliver the phonics programme consistently well and with confidence. They use regular assessment information to identify any pupils who may need some more help. This effective support helps pupils catch up quickly.

Typically, pupils become confident fluent readers.

In many subjects, teachers successfully use their expertise to identify and to address pupils' misconceptions. However, in a small number of subjects, teachers do not identify and address some of the key gaps that pupils have in some aspects of their subject knowledge.

This prevents pupils from achieving all that they could in these subjects. In addition, errors in some pupils' spelling, punctuation and handwriting go unchecked. Consequently, some pupils continue to repeat these errors.

Pupils behave well around school. Pupils who sometimes struggle to regulate their own behaviour benefit from sensitive support from staff. They are helped to manage their emotions successfully.

Many strategies, such as the celebration of positive attendance, are helping to improve pupils' rates of attendance over time. The school works in close partnership with parents and external agencies to reduce absence levels. As a result, more pupils now attend school regularly and benefit from its ambitious curriculum.

The school places a strong focus on pupils' wider development. Pupils learn how to be healthy in mind and body, and how to stay safe when online. They also enjoy yoga and movement sessions to support their well-being.

Pupils understand the importance of prioritising sleep, drinking water and having active and healthy lifestyles.

Pupils demonstrate considerable compassion when discussing sensitive issues, including the differences that exist among people. They readily learn about different cultures and faiths.

Pupils are well-prepared to grow up in a modern and diverse Britain.

The school, including governors, care about staff's well-being. They consider staff's workload while making decisions to improve the quality of education.

Governors have the expertise to fulfil their roles and responsibilities effectively. They provide support and challenge to the school in equal measure.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

What does the school need to do to improve?

(Information for the school and appropriate authority)

• At times, the school does not identify the spelling, punctuation, and handwriting errors that some pupils make when they write independently. This means that some pupils continue to make the same errors over time. The school should ensure that these errors are identified and addressed swiftly so that pupils are supported to develop their writing accuracy and expertise across the curriculum.

• In a few subjects, the checks on pupils' learning do not fully identify where some pupils have gaps in their knowledge. In these subjects, this prevents pupils from achieving as highly as they could. The school should ensure that any key gaps in pupils' subject knowledge are identified and addressed effectively in these curriculum areas so that pupils learn as well as they could in all subjects.