Ofsted Inspection Judgement:

St Peter's is an outstanding school, where students from a wide range of backgrounds achieve well.

This good achievement is the result of the good teaching and excellent care, guidance and support that the students receive.

The innovative curriculum meets the needs of the students extremely well and also makes a strong contribution to their positive achievement.

Students enjoy their lessons.

Students, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make good progress in their lessons and achieve well.

The school is at the forefront of innovative curriculum practice.

Parents' belief that the school provides a safe environment supports the inspection team's view that the school gives strong support to the welfare of its students.

Teaching is lively and support is timely, well placed and helpful in accelerating learning.

This very inclusive school makes a good contribution to promoting community cohesion.

The school engages well with parents and carers through its website and through newsletters, and parents feel that their views are listened to.

The excellent curriculum is well designed and caters very well for the range of needs, interests and abilities of students in the school. It is a key factor in students' raised attainment, above average attendance and below average exclusions.

Students for whom English is an additional language, including those at an early stage of learning the language , are very well supported and, as a result, they make good, and in some cases outstanding progress.

Students are very confident in the school's processes for ensuring their safety. They know who they can turn to if they have a problem and believe that school staff respond very well when any incident of bullying occurs.

Students respond well to the school's many activities that promote business and enterprise skills, they make good progress in their literacy, numeracy and ICT skills, and also attend well.