Inspection Summary Report - Holy Evangelists’ Primary School and Nursery Unit

Holy Evangelists’ Primary School and Nursery Unit

DE Ref No 403-6702

Inspection Summary Report - September 2025

Holy Evangelists’ Primary School and Nursery Unit’s vision, articulated in their unique THRIVE statement and infused through their shared values and ethos, is wholly visible, tangible and lived out by all throughout the school.
The highly effective strategic senior leaders and governors challenge, empower, encourage and support the school community to achieve fully the vision. Self‑evaluation and whole-school planning for improvement is comprehensive and robust.
The staff use highly effective systems to monitor the progress of all children, identify needs, and inform targeted planning and interventions.
Successful learning in the school is supported effectively by well-planned opportunities for the children to engage in appropriately differentiated, meaningful and practical activities. Leaders and staff are working collaboratively to embed these practices consistently across all classes.
There is a whole-school commitment to the children’s wellbeing, underpinned by a deeply embedded culture of care and inclusive pastoral systems, which enable the children to feel both physically and emotionally safe and within which they can THRIVE.
The children identified as having special educational needs are supported effectively through a wide range of strategies and approaches to enable them to regulate their emotions, overcome their barriers to learning and achieve well.
Across the school the children are well‑behaved, happy and engaged in their learning. They contribute confidently to class discussions and work and play very well in pairs and groups.
The children are making very good progress in their learning from their individual starting points.
The principles of nurture are well-embedded throughout the school. There are good working relationships between the children and the classroom assistants and effective partnership working between the classroom assistants and the teachers.
The school has identified appropriately the impact of poor attendance on the achievement of a small proportion of the children and is taking steps unilaterally, and in conjunction with outside agencies, to improve attendance for all.
The staff are committed to continuous professional learning and the culture and ethos of collegial working across the school, and collaborative partnerships with parents and external agencies, create positive conditions for successful learning.
At the time of the inspection, the evidence provided by the school demonstrates that the arrangements for child protection align to the current statutory guidance.

Next steps

The governors, senior leaders and staff of Holy Evangelists’ Primary School and Nursery Unit are wholly committed to living out their vision through providing a safe and nurturing learning environment which is underpinned by caring relationships, inclusive practices and high expectations which successfully support each child to thrive academically, socially and emotionally.

As set out in the school’s current development plan, the next step for the school is to disseminate and embed the most effective practice to ensure consistency of high expectations for standards in learning and teaching across all classes.

In addition, inspectors identified an aspect of highly effective practice from which others may learn. The aspect of practice which should be shared more widely is:

the strategic work of the senior leaders and governors who are highly effective in challenging, empowering, encouraging and supporting the school community to achieve fully the school’s vision.