All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery

All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery is a warm, inclusive church school that generally performs at the expected standard, with personal development and wellbeing identified as a strong standard and safeguarding requirements met. Pupils feel safe, behave well and attend regularly; the early years provision is highly ambitious and effective, and the curriculum is broad and ambitious. Leaders know the school well, act decisively on priorities, and parents speak highly of the care and education provided. The school serves a town-centre community with an above-average proportion of pupils with SEN support and many pupils who speak English as an additional language. Notable strengths include the school’s nurturing ethos, strong personal development programme, good attendance and behaviour, effective early years provision, and leadership’s accurate understanding of priorities. However, several areas require further work: mathematics standards have dipped slightly, teaching activities are not consistently matched to what pupils know, and support for pupils with SEND is not consistently effective because individual plans are not always used to adapt learning. Governors’ challenge is not yet robust across all areas, and strategies to address a recent rise in absence are being strengthened. Overall, this is a school providing a sound education with clear capacity to improve. The next steps focus on making teaching consistently highly effective, strengthening monitoring and use of SEND support plans, and developing governor expertise so that support and challenge are robust across the school’s work.

Strengths

• Personal development and wellbeing are integrated across the school and judged strong.
• Pupils feel safe, are proud of their school and attend well.
• Attendance is above national averages and persistent absence is below national levels.
• Pupils behave well, treat each other with respect, and bullying is rare.
• Early years provision is highly ambitious, meticulously designed and helps children achieve well.
• Leaders have designed an ambitious curriculum that builds knowledge over time.
• Reading and writing teaching has been strengthened, with more pupils achieving a high standard in reading.
• Staff provide effective pastoral support, including in ‘the hive’ for vulnerable pupils.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of enriching experiences, clubs, leadership roles and character-building activities.
• Leaders are astute, act quickly on priorities and consider staff wellbeing and workload.
• Parents and carers speak highly of the school’s leadership and care.
• Safeguarding standards are met and there is an open culture of safeguarding.

Areas for Improvement

• Mathematics standards, including the Year 4 multiplication check, have declined slightly.
• Sometimes the quality of work pupils produce is limited and does not capture the depth of their understanding.
• Pupils with SEND progress steadily but could do better with more consistently effective adaptations.
• Learning activities sometimes do not support pupils’ understanding or build well on prior knowledge.
• SEND adaptations do not consistently align with pupils’ individual support plans, hindering learning.
• Leaders do not check systematically how staff use support plans to adapt learning, so SEND support is not consistently effective.
• Staff do not always maximise learning opportunities at less formal times in early years, particularly for the most vulnerable children.
• Behaviour policy and routines need greater consistency in how staff apply them.
• A recent increase in pupils’ absence is being addressed but remains a concern.
• Governors’ challenge is not robust across all aspects of the school’s work.
• Oversight of disadvantaged pupils’ progress and efforts to accelerate their attainment are still being strengthened.
• Teaching is largely effective but leaders need to secure consistent and highly effective teaching across the school.

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 All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery attended 96.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 7.4% 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, 0.0% of pupils at All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery 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 All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery had 21.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 16.1% of pupils at All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.0% 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 All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery received £6,052 and spent £6,117 for each of its 242 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £236,000 (£975 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 All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery is Expected standard, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery last inspected by Ofsted?

All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery have?

All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery has 242 pupils on roll.

What age range does All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery cover?

All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 63% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery?

All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery is at Castle Street, All Saints Ceva Primary School and Nursery Unit, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 1LS.