The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You lead the school very well. You are dedicated to ensuring that all pupils experience the best. You have created and maintain a culture of high expectations in learning and understanding rooted in a set of explicit and regularly articulated Christian values. You are clear that an emphasis on spiritual growth and well-being is the hallmark of your school. You know, too, that there is more to be done. You have shaped a leadership team that is now well placed to improve the service the school offers its children and the wider community even further. Your staff share your vision and morale is high. Pupils are well behaved and enjoy coming to school. They are very proud of the work they do. Relationships between staff and pupils are open and friendly and grounded in mutual respect. Pupils know that they can rely on the staff to care for and challenge them. The school’s previous inspection identified the need to increase the amount of outstanding teaching and to improve the quality of writing across the school, particularly that of the most able pupils. Working with the whole staff, you have addressed these areas successfully. You have reshaped the curriculum and attitudes to teaching and learning. Your curriculum is underpinned by ‘Living Faith, Performance and Action and Enterprise’. It emphasises ‘real-life’ and ‘hands-on’ experiences for pupils. Pupils told me that they enjoy this approach and the opportunities it gives them to develop their skills and confidence in learning and in writing in particular. You have put in place robust and systematic ways of checking on the impact of the curriculum. You and your team monitor the quality of teaching and pupils’ progress regularly and carefully. Pupils told me that they know how well they are doing and what they need to do to improve. They said that this is because they receive frequent and detailed feedback on their learning. You are aware that there is still more to do. You are clear about the need to provide even more opportunities for extended writing in subjects other than English. You and your team also identified the need to raise mathematics outcomes through giving pupils more opportunities to solve real-life problems and thus improve their fluency in applying mathematical skills. I saw clear evidence during the inspection that your work in this area is having a positive impact on pupils’ grasp of the link between key mathematical concepts and their application. Pupils were able to talk with fluency about how they used a range of approaches to deal with a knotty mathematical problem. What pupils said was backed up by what I saw in their books. The vast majority of parents are very positive about the work of the school and hold the school in high regard. They told me that they particularly welcome the ready accessibility of you and your staff because it means that they are regularly updated on how well their children are doing. They said that this is a strength of the school and of your leadership. You are very clear that engagement and partnership with your pupils’ parents and families are key elements in raising aspirations. You use a range of imaginative and successful tactics to encourage parents to come into school so that you can update them not only on their children’s progress but also how they, as parents and families, can best support and encourage their learning and well-being. Governance is a strength of the school. Governors have developed a rigorous set of protocols that underpin their regular visits to the school. These visits are carefully focused and linked to the school’s strategic plans. Through their visits to the school, governors are able to gain keen insights into its work and make appropriate and informed comments. The school and its governors are well supported and challenged by officers of North Yorkshire local authority and of the Diocese of York. Safeguarding is effective. The leadership team has ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose and records are detailed and of high quality. You have created and maintain a strong culture of safeguarding. This permeates the whole school. You ensure that there is regular and effective training for all staff and governors to ensure that they are up to date in their knowledge and understanding of safeguarding. You, as the designated safeguarding lead, have very strong and determined links with the relevant outside agencies. You record your dealings with these agencies in a detailed and meticulous manner. You follow safeguarding issues through effectively and engage with the local authority promptly. As a result, you ensure that any safeguarding issues that do arise are addressed fully and well by a wide range of professionals.