St Joseph's RC Primary School
Catchment Area, Reviews and Key Information

Primary
PUPILS
183
AGES
3 - 11
GENDER
Mixed
TYPE
Voluntary aided school
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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.

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  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
(26/09/2023)
Full Report - All Reports
65%
NATIONAL AVG. 60%
% pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics



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Progress Compared With All Other Schools

UNLOCK Well Below Average (About 9% of schools in England) Below Average (About 9% of schools in England) Average (About 67% of schools in England) Above Average (About 6% of schools in England) Well Above Average (About 9% of schools in England) UNLOCK Well Below Average (About 10% of schools in England) Below Average (About 9% of schools in England) Average (About 67% of schools in England) Above Average (About 6% of schools in England) Well Above Average (About 8% of schools in England) UNLOCK Well Below Average (About 10% of schools in England) Below Average (About 11% of schools in England) Average (About 59% of schools in England) Above Average (About 11% of schools in England) Well Above Average (About 9% of schools in England)
Market Street
Mossley
Ashton-under-Lyne
OL5 0ES
01457832360

School Description

The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You became headteacher in 2016. Since that time, you have been determined to maintain and improve the quality of education your pupils receive. You ensure that they have a well-maintained and welcoming environment. You give pupils a sense of pride by displaying around school the best examples of their work from a wide range of subjects. You and your staff care well for your pupils. For example, you give a high profile to their mental health. You have set up a dedicated display board, which reminds pupils about how to be aware of and better understand their emotions. You also encourage pupils to think about others’ feelings. You have founded these messages firmly on the school’s Roman Catholic ethos by connecting them to Christian values, such as kindness. You have also timetabled a trained teaching assistant to be available at least once each week to meet pupils’ mental health needs. These actions contribute effectively to pupils’ well-being and to their confidence that adults will help them, if they have any concerns. You have been mostly successful in addressing the areas for improvement that inspectors identified at the last inspection. Evidence from observations of teaching showed that pupils now listen very well in class. This contributes effectively to the picture of typically above-average attainment in reading and writing across the school. Although attainment in mathematics is close to the national average by the end of Year 6, it is not currently as strong as that in reading and writing. You have also ensured that teachers adopt strong practices in teaching and learning across the school. For example, staff have opportunities to see effective practice in other schools, which they then adapt and apply to their own teaching. A new tracking system ensures that staff have a clearer view of the skills pupils need to develop in each subject. You have also introduced a new approach to the teaching of mathematics, so that teachers now have a sharper focus on developing pupils’ skills in problem-solving and reasoning. Leaders of subjects other than English and mathematics have received the training they need to enable them to check accurately the standards in their subject. They now carry out a range of activities to this end, such as visits to lessons and scrutiny of pupils’ work. They give feedback to staff about areas for development and identify gaps in pupils’ skills. They then devise appropriate action plans for improvement. However, they are not consistently clear in explaining and evaluating the intended impact of their actions on pupils’ achievement. You are clear about the school’s priorities. You have useful plans for school improvement in place. These identify appropriate objectives and actions and you have identified who is responsible and what resources are required. The plans are less precise, however, in conveying how you will measure the impact on pupils’ outcomes. You support pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development effectively. Pupils enjoy a range of clubs, such as art, dance and various sports clubs. They benefit from visits to the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, for instance, and residential trips to take part in adventurous activities. You also ensure that you promote fundamental British values, including tolerance and respect for others’ faiths and cultures. You provide a range of activities and lessons in subjects such as religious education and personal, social and health education to develop pupils’ understanding. Staff are very positive about their work in the school. They appreciate the training that leaders provide and say it makes them better practitioners. The local authority and the diocese have a good grasp of the school’s strengths and areas for development. Between them, they have provided various forms of effective support, such as an experienced headteacher to act as your mentor when you first came into your current post. As you have gained experience, they have gradually reduced their support, in keeping with their increasing confidence in your leadership skills. Safeguarding is effective. The leadership team has ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose and your electronic records are detailed and of high quality. As designated safeguarding lead, you make prompt referrals to external agencies, such as children’s services, as necessary. The school’s record of required checks on members of staff complies with the government’s guidance. There is a strong culture of safeguarding in the school. Your staff are well trained in safeguarding procedures. The warm and trusting relationships between staff and pupils enable adults to be alert to any concerns. Pupils feel safe in the school because adults teach them important lessons, such as not to give personal details to anyone when using the internet. Inspection findings At the start of the day, I shared with you a number of key lines of enquiry, which formed the basis for the inspection. I have already written about how effectively you have addressed the areas for improvement identified at the last inspection. I have also reported on the effectiveness of safeguarding. Another key line of enquiry concerned the progress of pupils currently in key stage 2 who are disadvantaged. You make effective use of pupil premium funding to provide pupils with, for example, individual tuition and extra sessions in small groups to support the development of their skills in English and mathematics. As a result, this current group of pupils makes strong progress. These pupils acquire the relevant knowledge, understanding and skills well. In mathematics in Year 6, for example, they successfully tackle complex problems involving multiplication. My next key line of enquiry related to how well leaders ensure that most-able pupils, currently in key stage 1, make strong progress in reading, writing and mathematics. Teachers provide plenty of opportunities for these pupils to deepen their learning. For example, in mathematics, teachers ask pupils questions that challenge their reasoning skills, such as those that require them to predict mathematical solutions if aspects of a problem are changed. In writing, pupils show more sophistication in their style and sentence structure than other pupils. By Year 2 in reading, most-able pupils show good development of higher-order skills, such as inference. The number of pupils who attain greater depth in writing by the end of Year 2 has improved recently. However, the proportion of pupils who reach that standard in reading, writing and mathematics is still not high enough. Another focus was on the progress that children make in the early years. After your arrival as headteacher, you made effective use of expertise from other schools where practice in the early years is strong. You now make sure that staff analyse the gaps in children’s skills more accurately. This enables them to plan well-organised learning opportunities for children. For instance, children enjoyed a game with numbered skittles, which combined the development of their physical and mathematical skills to good effect. Because of leaders’ actions, there was substantial improvement in 2017 in the number of children who achieved a good level of development. In 2018, leaders have ensured that the proportion of children continues to be close to the national average. Since children enter the early years with knowledge and skills below those that are typical for their age, this represents strong progress. Finally, leaders understand their statutory responsibilities well. Governors have a secure knowledge of the school and support and challenge you and your senior leaders effectively. They have a clear overview of safeguarding in the school. However, owing to some technical issues, the school’s website is not currently compliant. This is because leaders have been unable to upload some information about the governors and about the provision for pupils who have special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities. Leaders and governors have undertaken to rectify matters as soon as possible. Next steps for the school Leaders and those responsible for governance should ensure that: they continue with their strategies to increase the number of pupils who achieve greater depth in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of key stage 1 they develop the school’s new approach to teaching mathematics, so that even more pupils attain the expected standard or better by the end of Year 6 they ensure that action plans for improvement make clear the intended impact of leaders’ actions on pupils’ achievement and how that impact will be precisely evaluated they make sure that the school’s website is compliant and remains so. I am copying this letter to the chair of the governing body, the director of education for the Diocese of Salford, the regional schools commissioner and the director of children’s services for Tameside. This letter will be published on the Ofsted website. Yours sincerely Mark Quinn Her Majesty’s Inspector Information about the inspection With you, I carried out short visits to the early years and all year groups in key stage 1 and key stage 2. I scrutinised a range of documentation, including the school’s self-evaluation summary, action plans for school improvement, minutes of meetings of the governing body and records connected with the safeguarding of children. I held discussions with you, other members of staff, governors and pupils. I had discussions with a representative of the local authority and a representative of the diocese. I analysed pupils’ work and the school’s own assessment information. I evaluated 52 responses received through Parent View, Ofsted’s online survey. There were no other survey responses.

St Joseph's RC Primary School Parent Reviews



unlock % Parents Recommend This School
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>60, "agree"=>36, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>67, "agree"=>28, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>2, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>40, "agree"=>43, "disagree"=>10, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>3} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023
My Child Has Not Been Bullied Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"my_child_has_not_been_bullied"=>67, "strongly_agree"=>5, "agree"=>14, "disagree"=>9, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>2} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>33, "agree"=>59, "disagree"=>5, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023
I Have Not Raised Any Concerns Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"i_have_not_raised_any_concerns"=>22, "strongly_agree"=>26, "agree"=>31, "disagree"=>21, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>42, "agree"=>33, "disagree"=>8, "strongly_disagree"=>8, "dont_know"=>8} UNLOCK Figures based on 12 responses up to 27-09-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>29, "agree"=>50, "disagree"=>10, "strongly_disagree"=>3, "dont_know"=>7} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>34, "agree"=>57, "disagree"=>5, "strongly_disagree"=>2, "dont_know"=>2} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>28, "agree"=>55, "disagree"=>17, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>0} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>41, "agree"=>45, "disagree"=>3, "strongly_disagree"=>2, "dont_know"=>9} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>36, "agree"=>43, "disagree"=>12, "strongly_disagree"=>5, "dont_know"=>3} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know {"strongly_agree"=>29, "agree"=>43, "disagree"=>24, "strongly_disagree"=>0, "dont_know"=>3} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023
Yes No {"yes"=>76, "no"=>24} UNLOCK Figures based on 58 responses up to 27-09-2023

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