An Isle of Wight primary school has been praised for its progress by Ofsted, but has fallen shy of improving its rating.
Holy Cross Catholic Primary School, in East Cowes, said it is confident it can make it the best school it can be and still has work to do.
It had held a ‘good’ Ofsted rating until 2019, when it was downgraded to ‘requires improvement.’
It retained that rating at the latest inspection, in June.
Inspectors said pupils were happy, well-behaved and felt safe.
In four out of five areas, the school was rated ‘good,’ but it was let down by the quality of education, which inspectors said still required improvement.
Significant turbulence was highlighted by the government’s education watchdog, but inspectors acknowledged the work of the interim executive headteacher, governors and other senior leaders, which they said had brought much-needed stability.
Children get off to a strong start in their school life and are highly motivated to learn, inspectors said, adding the curriculum has been carefully designed for early years pupils.
Leaders are ambitious for pupils to achieve well and have rightly focused on improving English and maths. The rest of the curriculum is not sufficiently developed and substantial improvement is needed, they said.
They said pupils do not always achieve as well as they should across the whole curriculum.
Inspectors said key knowledge and skills are not clearly defined. Leaders must ensure the curriculum development is completed, so pupils are fully prepared for the next stage of their education.
Assessment processes are not well developed in many subjects, Ofsted said, so leaders do not know how well pupils learn.
Staff are well-trained in safeguarding and they know how to identify and report concerns in the strong, school-wide culture of safety.
Special educational needs pupils have appropriate adaptations to tasks and activities to ensure they access the same curriculum as their peers, but they do not experience a clearly defined curriculum in all subjects.
The leadership of special education provision has strengthened.
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