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St Thomas' CE Primary School
St Clement & St James CE Primary School
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Ofsted & Inspection Reports
OFSTED Inspection
Ofsted praised St Thomas’ when they visited in January 2025. The school was awarded outstanding in all five categories:
- Quality of education - outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes - outstanding
- Personal development - outstanding
- Leadership and management - outstanding
- Early Years provision - outstanding
Ofsted Highlights:
- The report commends St Thomas' as a "vibrant and inclusive community" where children "thrive in a supportive environment" and "feel safe and secure."
- It highlights the school's "high expectations and an ambitious curriculum," ensuring pupils "achieve highly and are well prepared for life beyond school."
- The inspectors noted "exemplary behaviour and a calm, focused atmosphere in lessons,"providing an environment for children to flourish”.
- The school's "strong leadership" and "regular coaching and training" result in expert staff who feel "valued and supported."
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St Thomas' Ofsted & Inspection Reports
SIAMS Inspection
We had our statutory inspection of Anglican schools in March 2020 and were graded as excellent in all areas. The key findings were as follows:
- A clear, explicit and ambitious Christian vision is shared by leaders, governors and staff and lived out in every aspect of the school’s life so that adults and pupils, regardless of their faith or background, are valued, thrive and flourish.
- Pupils enter the school with lower than average levels of attainment. However, the school’s clear vision leads to excellent, personalised and compassionate support so that, each one makes excellent progress and, by the time they leave the school, most attain standards that are higher than national expectations.
- The vision leads to a strong sense of community in all the school does and pupils love the high levels of engagement with the cultural diversity around them. In partnership with the parish church, the school is recognised as a beacon of hope and a centre of reconciliation and support to the community it serves.
- Collective worship is an articulation of the school’s inclusive vision. It is deeply Christian, yet its richness and variety embraces pupils of all faiths and beliefs and affirms all who attend.
- Religious Education (RE) is expertly taught. As an outworking of the vision, pupils learn deep lessons about Christianity and can make strong and relevant connections between the other faiths they study.