St John Fisher: Our vision
At St John Fisher, we strive to create a school community where children and adults achieve their full potential and SHINE! We will achieve this through engagement, high expectations and by treating all with respect and dignity.
Click here to view our latest inspection report:
Some comments from our most recent Ofsted Report (June 2021):
The school’s mission and vision are a golden thread running through hall aspects of school life. Leaders encourage pupils to live out the school’s Catholic values in their words and deeds. Pupils said that this makes the school a happy, friendly and caring place to be.
Pupils are quick to celebrate each other’s strengths and achievements. They are quick to praise their peers where it is due. They are considerate towards others when they are struggling and are keen to offer support.
Pupils get on well together and any rare fallings out are often resolved by the pupils themselves. Pupils are confident that when they ask their teachers for help, including with bullying, issues will be resolved fairly and sensitively. Teachers, parents and carers agree that pupils are well cared for.
Pupils progress well across the different national curriculum subjects. They enjoy learning new things and behave well in lessons. Pupils take pride in their work and pay heed to their teachers’ advice. This helps them to improve their work.
Parent View
Parent View We encourage our parents and carers to fill in the questionnaire to let Ofsted know your views about your child’s school.
Launching Parent View, Baroness Sally Morgan, Ofsted Chair said:
‘Parents know how valuable the insight of other mums and dads can be when making choices about schools. Parent View will provide a comprehensive national platform for gathering this information. Parent View will also give parents and carers in England the opportunity to make their voice heard when it comes to the performance of their child’s school. What parents tell us through these questionnaires will be considered when making decisions about when a school should be inspected’
You will be asked 12 questions and your answers will be anonymous. If you would like to complete the survey in school, we can make computers available on Parent’s Evenings with guest accounts.
Below is a table showing our most recent questionnaire results based on 60 responses.
| Whole school result Spring 2018: 60 responses | Strongly Agree/ Agree | Don’t know | Disagree/ Strongly disagree | |
| 1 | My child is happy at this school | 100% | ||
| 2 | My child feels safe at this school | 100% | ||
| 3 | My child is making good progress at this school | 97% | 3% | |
| 4 | My child is well looked after at this school | 98.4% | 1.6% | |
| 5 | My child is taught well at this school | 98.4% | 1.6% | |
| 6 | My child receives appropriate homework for their age | 92% | 4.8% | 3.2% |
| 7 | This school makes sure its pupils are well behaved | 96.8% | 3.2% | |
| 8 | This school deals well with any cases of bullying | 63% | 37% | |
| 9 | This school is well led and managed | 96.8% | 1.6% | 1.6% |
| 10 | This school responds well to any concerns I raise | 91.7% | 8.3% | |
| 11 | I receive valuable information from the school about my child’s progress | 100% | ||
| 12 | This school encourages my child to have a healthy lifestyle. | 98.4% | 1.6% | |
| 13 | I would recommend this school to another family | 100% |
| What we are doing well: | Our response and actions: |
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We aim to continue to support all of our children and families so that they are able to grow, learn and flourish at St John Fisher. We really appreciate the comments made; they help us to celebrate what we are doing well and focus on some areas that we can improve even more. |
| What we could do better: | Our response and actions: |
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During the Summer term, we will be looking at homework across all years. We will be asking both families and children for their thoughts about how useful it is and how it could be improved to help aid progress in school Knowsley authority advise that school meals are: Nutritionally balanced to ensure they are low in fat, sugar and salt and high in vitamins and minerals The school day begins at 8.55am and doors open at 8.45am to help ease congestion at this busy time. Staff always aim to ensure that doors are open on time at both start and end of the day. We will continue to monitor this in the Summer term. |
| 100 responses- 22.2.17 | Strongly Agree/ Agree | Don’t know | Strongly disagree/ Disagree | |
| 1 | My child is happy at this school | 99% | 1% | |
| 2 | My child feels safe at this school | 99% | 1% | |
| 3 | My child is making good progress at this school | 100% | ||
| 4 | My child is well looked after at this school | 100% | ||
| 5 | My child is taught well at this school | 100% | ||
| 6 | My child receives appropriate homework for their age | 98% | 1% | 1% |
| 7 | This school makes sure its pupils are well behaved | 97% | 2% | 1% |
| 8 | This school deals well with any cases of bullying | 65% | 31% | 4% |
| 9 | This school is well led and managed | 97% | 3% | |
| 10 | This school responds well to any concerns I raise | 89% | 9% | 2% |
| 11 | I receive valuable information from the school about my child’s progress | 97% | 3% | |
| 12 | This school encourages my child to have a healthy lifestyle. | 99% | 1% | |
| 13 | I would recommend this school to another family | 96% | 4% |
| What we are doing well: | Our response and actions: |
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School will continue to respond to your concerns as promptly and professionally and aim to ensure your child is always happy and safe in school. All staff will continue to have the highest expectations for your child and will provide support and challenge to enable them to reach their goals and potential. We will continue to explore ways we can further improve communication and ways to use the app for other school events similar to booking for Parent’s Evening We will provide Healthy Tuck Shop daily and provide a variety of choices, especially more variety of fruit as the season allows. Health Champions will create some posters to advertise the Tuck Shop around school. |
| What we could do better: | Our response and actions: |
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We will continue to update the school diary on the newsletter and app as far in advance of events as possible. We will run some of our parent events at a later time to enable working parents to attend. We will ensure we promote moderation in healthy choices to children via our Health Champions, website and assemblies Leaders will monitor teaching and learning throughout the school to ensure the standard is high. Leaders and staff will continue to be available and approachable to all parents and carers, especially at the start and end of the school day. |
