Statutory information

GDPR & Data Protection

At St Thomas’ CE Primary School, we take our responsibility to protect the privacy and personal data of our pupils, parents, and staff very seriously. In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, we ensure that all personal information is processed fairly, lawfully, and transparently. The following policies and privacy notices outline how we collect, store, and share data to maintain a secure environment for our entire school community.

Key Privacy Notices

Our privacy notices explain what information we collect about you, why we collect it, and how we use it.

Privacy Notice for Pupils & Parents: Details on how we handle student records, attendance, and progress data.
Privacy Notice for Staff: Outlines how we manage employment-related data.
Privacy Notice for Governors & Volunteers: Explains data handling for those supporting school leadership.

Data Protection Policies

These documents outline the school’s internal procedures for managing information and responding to data requests.

Data Protection Policy: Our overarching framework for GDPR compliance.
Freedom of Information (FOI) Policy: How to request information held by the school under the Freedom of Information Act.
Records Management & Retention Policy: How long we keep specific types of data before they are securely destroyed.

Ofsted & Inspection Reports

OFSTED Inspection

Ofsted praised St Thomas’ when they visited in January 2025. The school was awarded outstanding in all five categories:

Quality of education – outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes – outstanding
Personal development – outstanding
Leadership and management – outstanding
Early Years provision – outstanding

Ofsted Highlights

The report commends St Thomas’ as a “vibrant and inclusive community” where children “thrive in a supportive environment” and “feel safe and secure.”
It highlights the school’s “high expectations and an ambitious curriculum,” ensuring pupils “achieve highly and are well prepared for life beyond school.”
The inspectors noted “exemplary behaviour and a calm, focused atmosphere in lessons,”providing an environment for children to flourish”.
The school’s “strong leadership” and “regular coaching and training” result in expert staff who feel “valued and supported.”

Information for School Inspection

St Thomas' Ofsted & Inspection Reports

SIAMS Inspection

We had our statutory inspection of Anglican schools in March 2020 and were graded as excellent in all areas. The key findings were as follows:

A clear, explicit and ambitious Christian vision is shared by leaders, governors and staff and lived out in every aspect of the school’s life so that adults and pupils, regardless of their faith or background, are valued, thrive and flourish.
Pupils enter the school with lower than average levels of attainment. However, the school’s clear vision leads to excellent, personalised and compassionate support so that, each one makes excellent progress and, by the time they leave the school, most attain standards that are higher than national expectations.
The vision leads to a strong sense of community in all the school does and pupils love the high levels of engagement with the cultural diversity around them. In partnership with the parish church, the school is recognised as a beacon of hope and a centre of reconciliation and support to the community it serves.
Collective worship is an articulation of the school’s inclusive vision. It is deeply Christian, yet its richness and variety embraces pupils of all faiths and beliefs and affirms all who attend.
Religious Education (RE) is expertly taught. As an outworking of the vision, pupils learn deep lessons about Christianity and can make strong and relevant connections between the other faiths they study.

St Thomas' Pupil & Sports Premium

The Pupil Premium (PP) is a grant given to schools for each child who claims free school meals currently or who has done so in the past six years. Research has shown that pupils who have been or are on free school meals do not attain as highly as other children in school.

The government provides this grant so we can allocate additional support to ensure that disadvantaged children do attain well. The support can be in a short burst or over a longer period such as a term or a year or more.

It may take the form of one-to-one support, small group teaching or additional teacher support in class. It could also be enrichment or access to opportunities that enhance learning and aspiration.

St Thomas' Pupil Outcomes

We are proud of the very strong progress pupils make at St Thomas’. By the time they leave the school many children are working at national expectations and at greater depth.

Aims

Our main aims are:

To close the gap in attainment for PP pupils in all subjects
To maintain high expectations and standards for all PP pupils
To ensure that all pupils are given the same opportunities to develop their potential and participate in activities in and outside school

This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium for the 2023 to 2025 academic years to help improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.

It outlines the school’s pupil premium strategy, how the school intends to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium funding had within the school.