St Peter’s Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Sible Hedingham

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school School leaders have taken effective action to ensure that pupils make good overall progress in reading and writing and mathematics across all year groups. Leaders and governors demonstrate a good understanding of the school's strengths and weaknesses and know what to do to improve outcomes for pupils further.

Disadvantaged pupils are supported well to make good, and sometimes better, progress in reading, writing and mathematics. Leaders use funding well to ensure that pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) make strong progress from their different starting points. Teachers demonstrate good subject knowledge in reading, wr...iting and mathematics.

They plan lessons that spark pupils' interest and inspire them to do well. Leaders provide a safe environment for pupils to learn and play. Pupils, parents and carers, and school staff say pupils are safe.

All systems for safeguarding are effective. The school is a vibrant, happy place. The school's exciting curriculum and strong values develop pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development well.

Pupils behave well in and out of lessons. They love learning and are polite and respectful to each other and adults. All staff are very positive about the leadership of the school.

They are happy to be members of the school community and they feel they are well supported by leaders. Leaders' plans for improvement are not focused well enough on improving the outcomes of pupils across all subject areas. Teachers do not always use information about pupils' progress well enough to plan activities that support pupils, particularly those with average prior attainment, to make the good and better progress of which they are capable.

Significant staffing changes in the early years have meant that provision does not consistently meet the needs of all children. As a result, children, particularly the most able, do not make the good progress they should.

Information about this school

The headteacher took up post in September 2015.

A small number of pupils come from minority ethnic backgrounds. The proportion of pupils with SEND is below the national average. The percentage of disadvantaged pupils is below the national average.

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