Ofsted

Ofsted Summary

The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection.

The school became an academy in August 2015 with the Romero Catholic Academy, a multi-academy company (MAC). You took up your post as principal in January 2017. St Gregory’s is a caring and inclusive school. Parents and carers say that their children are very happy at school and that it feels like a ’village school in the city’. Pupils say that they are taught to respect and look after one another.

Parents are very supportive of the school and are fully involved in school life. Parents and grandparents are invited into key stage 1 classes every week to read with their children and grandchildren at the start of the day. Parents say that this helps them to support their children more effectively with their reading at home.

The Friends and Relatives of St Gregory’s (FROGS) parents’ group works hard to support the school and other parents. The group has produced a leaflet for parents of Reception class children with frequently asked questions and key information. The FROGS group hosts a stand at the parents’ evenings to answer parents’ questions.

Ofsted Full Report

RE Summary

  • St Gregory’s is an outstanding Catholic Primary school – Re inspection November 2015.
  • Catholic life is outstanding and pupil attainment and teaching are good with some outstanding teaching across the school.
  • Collective worship is outstanding. The school uses differing forms of prayer to interest pupils and encourage their participation. Class prayer, whether child or teacher planned and led, is of high quality.
  • There is a palpable Catholic ethos in the school. The leaders engender a strong sense of family thus enabling pupils to feel safe, cared for, respected and valued.
  • Pupils are treated with respect and they in turn show respect for other pupils and for the adults with whom they come into contact. This encourages the excellent behaviour reported and seen in classrooms and around the school.
  • There is a strong emphasis on living out the faith. During the Mass pupils are reverent, the singing outstanding and when there is the inclusion of drama it is of high quality. The quality of relationships throughout the school is exemplary. Staff are excellent role models for their pupils. There is a sense of togetherness.

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St Gregory’s Coventry, November 2015 RE Report