The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. The strengths in leadership and management that were identified at the last inspection have been maintained. You and your team share a clear vision and a passion to ensure that all the pupils in your care do well during their time at St Mary’s school. You work effectively to ensure that every pupil has a rich and exciting range of experiences. Your pupils are at the heart of everything that you do. You and your fellow leaders clearly want the best for each pupil academically, socially and personally. You have successfully built a team of high-quality teachers, teaching assistants and support staff. All staff share your commitment to delivering the school mission statement to ‘develop the skills of an effective lifelong learner, build successful relationships, have clear Christian values and principles and live by them’. This was evident from talking with staff, pupils and governors. The governing body is effective. Governors know the school well. They use a range of data, reports and first-hand information to check the school’s overall effectiveness. They have regular training to improve the quality of their work and their knowledge about key aspects of their role. They are highly ambitious for the school. They support and challenge you and your staff well. You, your governors and the leadership team have an accurate understanding of the school’s strengths and weaknesses. You have a clear plan in place to develop the school further. All leaders contribute to this planning process and work to achieve ambitious targets. Staff morale is high. This was evident from my discussion with middle leaders and newly qualified teachers. Staff understand the school’s priorities and the actions that leaders are taking to improve the quality of pupils’ education further. Staff are appreciative of the training and development opportunities available to them, many of which are helping to refine and develop their leadership skills. They are appreciative that senior leaders help them to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Effective mentoring means that new teachers to the school are well supported in their role. Pupils’ personal development is central to the ethos of the school. Pupils work hard and behave very well. They enjoy the range of roles and responsibilities that they are given. They are proud of their school, which they feel is a caring place where they are safe and challenged to do their best. The previous inspection report asked leaders to improve the quality of outdoor provision for children in the Reception class. Your actions to address this have been very successful. Children enjoy participating in a range of well-planned activities that follow their interests and promote their early reading, writing and mathematical development. They are active and independent learners. These improvements have, in part, led to an upward trend in outcomes at the end of early years, and the proportion of children reaching a good level of development has risen consistently. It is now close to national average. Leaders were also asked to improve the consistency of teaching across the school to ensure that all pupils make at least good progress. You have created an effective teaching and learning team. Inspection evidence, including work in pupils’ books and conversations with pupils, shows that the majority of pupils currently in the school are now making at least good progress. Parents and carers are on the whole supportive of the school. Several parents with whom I spoke and the vast majority of those who completed Ofsted’s online questionnaire, Parent View, told me that communication with the school was good and that they were happy with the school. A small minority of parents felt that more could be done to ensure that pupils were better prepared for the change from the early years to key stage 1. This is an area that you have worked on. I found no evidence to suggest that transition into key stage 1 was an area of concern. Safeguarding is effective. You have ensured that all the arrangements for safeguarding are fit for purpose. Staff and governors take their roles seriously and keep up to date with regular training. Staff are informed of changes swiftly, and you carry out effective checks to make sure staff understand the school’s safeguarding policies. Staff training, including that for new members of staff, is effective and ensures that they have a good awareness of their responsibilities. There is a positive culture for keeping pupils safe.