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St Albert’s Catholic Primary School in Stockbridge Village has received a “Strong Standard” outcome following their latest Ofsted inspection across a number of areas including Inclusion, Personal Development and Wellbeing. The school also achieved “Expected Standard” for Achievement, Curriculum and Teaching, Early Years, Leadership and Governance.
Inspectors noted that:-
- Leaders swiftly and accurately identify pupils’ needs. This enables them to use their impressive knowledge of pupils to match support to pupils’ needs. This support is of a consistently high quality.
- Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities receive high-quality and tailored support.
- Leaders have established a carefully designed personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) curriculum.
- Leaders provide a number of opportunities for pupils to extend their learning.
- Leaders carefully check pupils’ participation in all aspects of personal development. Staff routinely make careful adaptations that support pupils to access the school’s broad offer, regardless of need.
- Across the curriculum, pupils typically achieve well.
- Leaders have implemented improvements to the way that writing is taught from the early years to Year 6. These improvements have impacted rapidly and positively on pupils’ achievement.
- Current pupils’ writing across the school is consistent and of high quality. When pupils leave this school, they are ready for the next stages of their education.
- Leaders have established an ambitious curriculum that typically supports pupils well.
- Leaders’ recent changes to how writing is taught have improved the work that pupils produce.
- As soon as children join Nursery, they receive intensive support from staff. This helps them to become ready for school.
- An increasing number of children arrive in school without the skills they need to be ready for learning.
- Governors have an accurate view of the school.
- Leaders and governors are unrelenting in the welcome and inclusion offered to all pupils.
- The investment that leaders and governors make in supporting the wellbeing of families and pupils is of particular note. Staff receive professional learning that leads to continued improvement. Staff value leaders and appreciate the care that leaders provide for their wellbeing.
An area for improvement highlighted during the inspection was pupil attendance, but leaders are taking well-considered action to improve attendance.