St Anne's CofE Primary School

St Anne’s CofE Primary School is a warm, welcoming Church of England primary where pupils are happy, attend well and benefit from a nurturing environment. The June 2025 graded inspection found the school good in all key judgements: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The previous inspection grade was also good, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. The school has an ambitious curriculum, strong early years provision and effective phonics and reading teaching. Pupils with SEND are well supported, attendance has improved through strong systems, and pupils’ wider development is supported well through a thoughtful personal, social, health and economic programme. Governance is well informed and staff value the professional learning and support they receive. The main areas for improvement are in early writing and in checking pupils’ understanding during lessons. Expectations for writing in early years and key stage 1 are not consistent, and basic spelling and grammatical errors are sometimes not addressed, which can limit pupils’ accuracy and fluency. On occasion, teachers do not check systematically what pupils know and can do, so misconceptions or opportunities to move learning on can be missed.

Strengths

• Warm and welcoming school where pupils are happy and keen to attend
• High expectations for achievement and behaviour with calm, orderly classrooms
• Thoughtful and ambitious curriculum across the school
• Strong early years provision focused on communication and early number
• Effective phonics teaching and a developing love of reading
• Strong provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities
• Improved attendance systems that work well and support families
• Well-planned personal, social, health and economic programme
• Pupils learn to respect differences and are prepared for responsible citizenship
• Well-informed governance that holds leaders to account
• Staff value professional learning, coaching and consideration of their well-being
• Effective safeguarding arrangements

Areas for Improvement

• Early writing curriculum is not as well developed as other areas
• Expectations for how pupils construct and present writing are not clear in early years and key stage 1
• Basic spelling and grammatical errors are sometimes not addressed
• Some pupils do not write with consistent accuracy and fluency
• Teachers do not always check pupils’ understanding systematically in lessons
• Misconceptions can be missed and pupils are not always moved on in a timely way

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 Anne's CofE Primary School attended 95.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.0% 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 St Anne's CofE 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 Anne's CofE Primary School had 21.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.4% 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, 9.3% of pupils at St Anne's CofE Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.9% 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 Anne's CofE Primary School received £6,359 and spent £6,351 for each of its 214 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £96,000 (-£449 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 Anne's CofE Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Anne's CofE Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2025.

When was St Anne's CofE Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

St Anne's CofE Primary School was last inspected in July 2025.

How many pupils does St Anne's CofE Primary School have?

St Anne's CofE Primary School has 214 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Anne's CofE Primary School cover?

St Anne's CofE Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are St Anne's CofE Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 70% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Anne's CofE Primary School?

St Anne's CofE Primary School is at London Road, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 2WW.