St Bede Church of England Primary School

St Bede Church of England Primary School is a happy, caring and inclusive school where pupils achieve well and behaviour is excellent. Inspectors found strong leadership, a broad and engaging curriculum, highly effective early years provision, and very strong personal development. The school’s values of love, peace, courage, trust and friendship are evident in daily life, and parents describe it as feeling like a family. Safeguarding is effective. The quality of education is good, with curriculum design and reading particularly strong in many areas. Pupils benefit from well-trained staff, effective support for disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND, and a wide range of leadership and enrichment opportunities. Staff development and partnership work with other schools are also strengths. The main area for improvement is that the curriculum in a minority of foundation subjects is less developed, and some teachers and teaching assistants are less confident in adapting teaching to meet all pupils’ needs. As a result, some pupils do not learn as consistently well across every subject. Leaders have already prioritised further curriculum development and staff training. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic and its first since previously being exempt as an outstanding school; under the current framework, no overall effectiveness grade was awarded.

Strengths

• A happy, caring and inclusive school community with kindness evident throughout
• Excellent behaviour and attitudes, with calm, studious lessons and very rare disruption
• Outstanding personal development through a wide range of experiences and leadership roles
• Impressive leadership and management, including strong support for staff development
• A carefully crafted curriculum that engages and motivates pupils in most subjects
• Highly effective early years provision with clear routines and strong curriculum design
• A determined and successful approach to early reading and phonics
• Effective support for disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities
• Strong attendance work, including bespoke support that has reduced absence
• Effective safeguarding arrangements and a positive culture around safeguarding
• Purposeful partnership work that has helped other schools improve

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum design in some foundation subjects is at an earlier stage and does not identify the specific knowledge pupils should acquire with enough accuracy
• Some teachers and teaching assistants lack confidence or subject knowledge to adapt teaching effectively for all pupils
• As a result, some pupils do not learn as consistently well as they could across all subjects
• The school needs to complete its curriculum design and continue its programme of staff training so all pupils achieve consistently highly

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at St Bede Church of England Primary School attended 95.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.8% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 1.9% of pupils at St Bede Church of England Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 St Bede Church of England Primary School had 24.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.9% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 13.3% of pupils at St Bede Church of England Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.3% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 St Bede Church of England Primary School received £6,448 and spent £6,441 for each of its 414 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £139,000 (£337 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is St Bede Church of England Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Bede Church of England Primary School is Good, from an inspection in November 2024.

When was St Bede Church of England Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

St Bede Church of England Primary School was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does St Bede Church of England Primary School have?

St Bede Church of England Primary School has 414 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Bede Church of England Primary School cover?

St Bede Church of England Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are St Bede Church of England Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 78% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Bede Church of England Primary School?

St Bede Church of England Primary School is at Gordon Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 7DD.