Ofsted and Performance Data

Bulwell St Mary’s C of E Primary School has been praised for its ‘take care ethos’

Following the inspection of Bulwell St Mary’s C of E Primary School on 8^th and 9^th October 2024, Ofsted have determined that the leadership have taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection when it was rated Good.

The inspector highlighted the following points:

“Pupils enjoy coming to this friendly and helpful school.  They understand their ‘take care’ values, which are based on the Christian ethos of the school.  Pupils try hard to upload these every day.  Pupils who are ‘take care leaders’ take pride in rewarding others when they see pupils take care of themselves, each other, their work or school and community.  Staff have high expectations of behaviour and for pupils’ learning."

"The school has developed the curriculum to make sure that it is well thought out and carefully designed in many subjects.  This is helping pupils with their learning.  The school has made reading a high priority.  There is a consistent approach to the teaching of reading, including phonics.  This is having a positive impact on pupils’ learning to read, with pupils now achieving more highly than that seen previously."

"The school promotes pupils’ personal development well.  Pupils are knowledgeable about protected characteristics, diversity and discrimination.  They visit different places of worship.  Pupils also have opportunities to develop leadership roles."

"Leaders’ actions have been well targeted.  They have raised standards and the quality of education in school.”

We are very proud of the fact that we have maintained the ‘good’ judgement.  Parents, carers and children should be proud that the school they send their children to is recognised, by Ofsted, as continuing to be a ‘good’ school and our school continues to move forward in the right direction.

If you would like to share your views about the school with Ofsted you can complete a questionnaire through their ‘Parent View’ facility which you can fine on the Ofsted website.

2024 End of KS2 Validated Data

See table for school and national data for children achieving the expected standard for Y6 and above.

Department of Education publish comparison data for all primary schools, here:

https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/143015/bulwell-st-mary's-primary-and-nursery-school

COVID UPDATE

The government did not publish KS2 school level data for the 2021 to 2022 academic year. The last available public data is from the 2018 to 2019 academic year. It is important to note that the data from that year may no longer reflect current performance.