St Catherine's CofE Primary School
Catchment Area, Reviews and Key Information

Primary
PUPILS
135
AGES
4 - 11
GENDER
Mixed
TYPE
Voluntary aided school
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The concentration of pupils shows likelihood of admission based on distance criteria

Source: All attending pupils National School Census Data, ONS
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This School Guide heat map has been plotted using official pupil data taken from the last School Census collected by the Department for Education. It is a visualisation of where pupils lived at the time of the annual School Census.

Our heat maps use groups of postcodes, not individual postcodes, and have naturally soft edges. All pupils are included in the mapping (i.e. children with siblings already at the school, high priority pupils and selective and/or religious admissions) but we may have removed statistical ‘outliers’ with more remote postcodes that do not reflect majority admissions.

For some schools, the heat map may be a useful indicator of the catchment area but our heat maps are not the same as catchment area maps. Catchment area maps, published by the school or local authority, are based on geographical admissions criteria and show actual cut-off distances and pre-defined catchment areas for a single admission year.

This information is provided as a guide only. The criteria in which schools use to allocate places in the event that they are oversubscribed can and do vary between schools and over time. These criteria can include distance from the school and sometimes specific catchment areas but can also include, amongst others, priority for siblings, children of a particular faith or specific feeder schools. Living in an area where children have previously attended a school does not guarantee admission to the school in future years. Always check with the school’s own admission authority for the current admission arrangements.

3 steps to help parents gather catchment information for a school:

  1. Look at our school catchment area guide for more information on heat maps. They give a useful indicator of the general areas that admit pupils to the school. This visualisation is based on all attending pupils present at the time of the annual School Census.
  2. Use the link to the Local Authority Contact (above) to find catchment area information based on a single admission year. This is very important if you are considering applying to a school.
  3. On each school page, use the link to visit the school website and find information on individual school admissions criteria. Geographical criteria are only applied after pupils have been admitted on higher priority criteria such as Looked After Children, SEN, siblings, etc.

How Does The School Perform?

Good
NATIONAL AVG. 2.09
Ofsted Inspection
(15/01/2019)
Full Report - All Reports
21%
NATIONAL AVG. 60%
% pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics



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Musket Road
Heathfield
Newton Abbot
TQ12 6SB
01626832665

School Description

The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the previous inspection. You have developed a bespoke and inclusive culture, based around the school’s core values of ‘Justice, Compassion, Perseverance, Courage and Friendship’. These values are rooted in all areas of your work across the school. As a result, a very positive learning environment promotes pupils’ wellbeing and good academic and personal development in all classes. School leaders, governors and the federation hold an accurate, shared picture of the school’s effectiveness. This is supporting planning for even further improvement in the quality of teaching. This academic year, you have injected an additional urgency into school improvement. This is evident in your successful efforts to transform rapidly the quality of teaching and learning in reading from a weakness into a relative strength. You and your staff have valued and responded well to the training and support given to you by the local authority and colleagues across the federation. Equally, you and several of your staff support partner schools in the trust. For example, you share expertise in early years and in supporting pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) to help develop and improve their provision. Children continue to thrive and achieve well in the Nursery and Reception classes. Good progress, including in phonics, continues across key stage 1. Over time, pupils’ progress in reading through key stage 2 has not matched their more positive progress in mathematics and writing. However, as a result of better teaching and decisive action taken by leaders, all groups of pupils, including disadvantaged pupils are now making improved progress in all these subjects, including reading. Pupils behave well in class and around the school. They respond positively to teachers’ high expectations and relish offering and explaining their ideas. These qualities, alongside their growing self-confidence, underpin successful learning. Staff work well with parents and carers and communication is good. The large majority of parents who responded to Parent View would recommend the school and are similarly appreciative of all aspects of the school’s work. For example, one parent reflected the views of most by writing, ‘The school is a great community. My son is very happy there and doing really well.’ You and your leadership team have responded well to the areas for improvement identified by the previous inspection. You have ensured that the curriculum across the school enables all pupils to learn effectively in all subjects. This is evident in the pupils’ enjoyment of school and their fascination with the stimulating learning topics provided for them, such as making space diaries. As one parent wrote, ‘My daughter loves going to school every day.’ Similarly, you have strengthened the teaching of punctuation and grammar and accelerated pupils’ progress in writing across key stage 1. Your work in raising the challenge provided for the most able pupils has been effective. As a result, increasing proportions of pupils are reaching the higher standard in English and mathematics. Your school improvement plan rightly identifies sustaining this improvement. Safeguarding is effective. The school leadership team, including governors and other leaders across the federation, ensures that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose. As a result, staff are well trained. They understand the symptoms of neglect and are swift to identify signs of abuse. The school’s records show that leaders are thorough in their communications with external agencies and parents. Leadership and administrative staff, aided by governors, sustain an exemplary single central record of staff recruitment and vetting checks. Pupils say that they feel safe and that, ‘we talk to an adult, if anything is worrying us.’ These trusting relationships between staff and pupils are a key factor in pupils feeling safe. Pupils also say that they know how to help themselves and others to stay safe, for example ‘when using computers’. The large majority of parents who responded to the online questionnaire expressed the view that their children feel safe in school. As one parent typically wrote: ‘This school is what a primary school should be... a place where children can fall in love with learning in a fun, encouraging, colourful, safe and happy environment.’ A very small number of parents expressed concerns about the past behaviour of individual pupils. School records and letters to parents show that, on the infrequent occasions when issues arose, the school addressed them diligently.

St Catherine's CofE Primary School Parent Reviews



unlock % Parents Recommend This School
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>70, "agree"=>19, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>8, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 37 responses up to 16-01-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>70, "agree"=>22, "disagree"=>5, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 37 responses up to 16-01-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>59, "agree"=>35, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>3} UNLOCK Figures based on 37 responses up to 16-01-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>68, "agree"=>19, "disagree"=>8, "strongly_disagree"=>5, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 37 responses up to 16-01-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>68, "agree"=>22, "disagree"=>8, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>3} UNLOCK Figures based on 37 responses up to 16-01-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>54, "agree"=>38, "disagree"=>5, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 37 responses up to 16-01-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>43, "agree"=>41, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>5, "dont_know"=>8} UNLOCK Figures based on 37 responses up to 16-01-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>41, "agree"=>24, "disagree"=>5, "strongly_disagree"=>11, "dont_know"=>19} UNLOCK Figures based on 37 responses up to 16-01-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>68, "agree"=>19, "disagree"=>11, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 37 responses up to 16-01-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>51, "agree"=>27, "disagree"=>11, "strongly_disagree"=>5, "dont_know"=>5} UNLOCK Figures based on 37 responses up to 16-01-2019
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>62, "agree"=>24, "disagree"=>8, "strongly_disagree"=>5, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 37 responses up to 16-01-2019
Yes No {"yes"=>84, "no"=>16} UNLOCK Figures based on 37 responses up to 16-01-2019

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