St Anne’s Catholic Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an inadequate school Procedures for safeguarding pupils are not effective. Systems for recording and reporting concerns to leaders are disorganised.

As a result, leaders do not possess a clear understanding of pupils' welfare needs. Staff are trained to identify safeguarding concerns, but do not all understand how to report to an appropriate leader. This means that information can be lost or received late.

Governors have accepted too readily leaders' assurances about safeguarding. They have not ensured that procedures are fit for purpose. Safeguarding information held by nurseries and other providers is not requested or collected by leaders when childr...en start in early years.

While teaching across the school is strong, systems for monitoring teaching and learning are not sharply focused on staff's continuous development. Record keeping of incidents of bullying, racism and poor behaviour is fragmented. Consequently, leaders and governors do not identify patterns or address emerging issues.

The school has the following strengths Leaders responded decisively to a dip in standards in 2017. The development of writing has been a success. Pupils are taught specific skills in writing and use these to produce texts that are elegant and matched to the needs of the audience.

Teaching is good. Staff set work at the right level of difficulty for pupils. Disadvantaged pupils, the most able and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are well supported.

Pupils behave well and feel safe in school. This means that classrooms are calm and purposeful. Behaviour is good overall.

Pupils make strong progress in a range of subjects. The curriculum is broad and interesting and promotes a love of learning. Pupils' progress in the foundation subjects and science matches that in English.

Pupils who are taught the school's new mathematics curriculum make strong progress.

Information about this school

This school is smaller than the average-sized primary school. The proportion of pupils who are supported by the pupil premium is lower than the national average.

The proportion of pupils with SEND is slightly lower than the national average. The school is a Catholic primary school. The Diocese of Portsmouth conducted a section 48 inspection on 30 June 2014.

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