The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. Since your appointment as headteacher two years ago, you have acted quickly to strengthen the quality of teaching and learning and build a richer, more engaging curriculum. The impact of your work is now being seen in better rates of progress and higher academic standards at the end of key stage 2. Although good progress has been made, you are not complacent at all. You know that further improvements are needed to ensure that pupils make even better progress and more go on to attain higher standards by the end of Year 6. You continue to challenge and support your teachers, who told me that they feel more empowered and confident to take risks. You have re-shaped the senior leadership team and are developing middle leaders who increasingly share their expertise and good practice with their colleagues. Parents recognise that English Martyrs’ RC Primary is a much improved school. They know that the quality of teaching is better and that the support provided for individual pupils, such as those who have special educational needs and/or disabilities, makes a real difference to their progress at school. An overwhelming majority of parents would recommend the school. In the last inspection, leaders were asked to improve the quality of teaching and raise standards in writing. However, when you joined the school in 2015, you found that teaching required improvement and standards of writing were still variable.