Sacred Heart Primary is a school where love can grow

Sacred Heart Primary School has been judged as “outstanding” by Catholic inspectors checking on its religious ethos.

The inspection team were at the school in Red Lane in June and later wrote to the 213 children on the roll, saying it was “lovely to see so many happy, smiling faces”.

The Voluntary Aided school serves the parish of The Good Shepherd.

Three-quarters of the pupils are baptized Roman Catholic. One in five children is entitled to free school meals. The inspectors noted that the majority of pupils are below the national average standard when they start school in the reception class, but most make good or even better progress by the time they are ready to move on to secondary school.

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More information will be published as it becomes available.