St Leonard’s CE Primary School

Parental Satisfaction & Community Confidence Report

Celebrating Outstanding Feedback – February 2026 (73 responses)

Executive Summary

The February 2026 Parent Questionnaire results reflect exceptional levels of confidence, trust, and satisfaction across the St Leonard’s community. Parents overwhelmingly agree that the school provides a safe, nurturing, inclusive, and academically ambitious environment for every child.

Most notably, the school achieved a 100% recommendation rate—a powerful endorsement that highlights the positive relationships built between staff, pupils, and families.

1. Safety, Happiness & Wellbeing

St Leonard’s continues to excel in its core responsibility: ensuring every child feels safe, valued, and happy in school.

Key Highlights

• 100% of parents report their child is happy at school.
• 100% of pupils feel safe within the school environment.
• 96% agree the school ensures pupils are well behaved.
• Bullying concerns are taken seriously and resolved effectively:
  • 20% of parents raised a concern.
  • 90% (18% of total respondents) felt the school handled it properly.
• 27% of parents have never needed to raise a concern at all.

This confirms a culture rooted in care, respect, and proactive pastoral support.

2. Academic Excellence & High Expectations

Parents recognise St Leonard’s as a school where ambition and achievement go hand in hand.

Academic Strengths

• 99% agree the school maintains high expectations for every child.
• 99% report their child does well at St Leonard’s.
• 100% agree the school provides a wide and engaging range of subjects.
• 97% feel the school supports their child’s wider personal development.

These outcomes reflect a well-structured curriculum, strong teaching, and a culture of aspiration.

3. Outstanding Inclusion & SEND Provision

A particularly remarkable achievement is the school’s performance in inclusive education:

SEND Excellence

• 100% of parents of children with SEND report their child receives the support they need.

This demonstrates that St Leonard’s consistently removes barriers to learning, ensuring every child can succeed and thrive.

4. Communication, Transparency & Parental Partnership

Parents consistently praised the clarity, consistency, and quality of school communication.

Communication Achievements

• 100% of parents know what their child is learning across the year.
• This is achieved through:
  • Termly Curriculum Overviews shared on the school website.
  • Proactive email updates each term.
  • Clear and timely responses to parent queries.

Parents feel valued, informed, and engaged—ensuring strong home–school partnership.

5. Community, Ethos & Christian Distinctiveness

St Leonard’s Christian identity remains central to its success.

Faith & Values

• 100% of parents view Christian Distinctiveness as a core strength.
• Families praise the school’s supportive, caring, and value-led culture.

This strong ethos shapes the moral, cultural, and spiritual development of pupils.

6. Extracurricular Opportunities

Parents also recognise the breadth of enrichment activities offered:

• 81% say their child can take part in a range of clubs and activities.
• These opportunities support confidence, teamwork, creativity, and wellbeing.

The school continues to expand and refine its extracurricular offer to meet growing interest.

7. What Parents Say

Parents provided numerous heartfelt comments describing the school’s unique environment:

• “The mixed year classes benefit and accelerate learning”
• St Leonard’s has a strong sense of community, friendship and always trying “your best’
• “The school makes your child feel happy, connected and valued”
• “Ospreys (breakfast and afterschool club) is an excellent facility”
• “My child and I love this school”
• “Thank you to the amazing team that make the school such a special place”
• “I value the high standard the school sets for him to achieve his goals, learning respect and loyalty along the way”
• “Thank you all for your support and help during difficult times for our family”
• “We value the smaller classes, good learning environment and events such as the Chinese dragon workshop”
• “We value the small classes and engaged staff, lots of extra- curricular activities, lots of personal development opportunities such as Junior Duke and later this year OPAL”
• “Residentials! The overnight for year 2 on the field, the one night stay away in year 3 or year 4 and then the week away in year 6- we appreciate that the staff organise these and take time away from their families and Mrs Cullen who goes on them all!”
• “A small happy school with a supportive community”
• “A lovely school that always feel safe, clean and comfortable”
• Our daughter has the freedom to be herself”
• “we are so grateful for all the extras, like the talent show, science fair, silent discos, summer party, egg hunt and summer fete that give our children such a wonderful experience at school”
• “We feel this is a lovely school, where our daughter has always felt part of the family, we love she loves coming to school everyday”
• “we love how the school is offering new experiences such as Junior Duke and joining a band – my son is really looking forward to Indian drumming too!”
• “I love the community spirit, it’s like a small lovely family”
• “he loves the new tower in the playground”
• “ we love the school and it’s ethos”
• “my child feels safe and valued as a pupil and being treated as an individual”
• “we feel very lucky to have our children at St Leonard’s. It is a wonderful, safe school, both my children are thriving here we couldn’t be happier with the education provided”
• “Kind teachers and strong morals”
• “My children have loved this school and have always felt loved and supported”
• “my child feels part of the St Leonard’s family and excited to get to school each morning, his Teachers have taken the time to get to know him well and this is evident in discussions about him”
• “My child feels safe, happy, secure and supported and treated as an individual”
• “All the additional opportunities outside the classroom, rock school and junior duke etc”
• “Lovely school, supportive staff”
• “my child enjoys the extra-curricular offer and events such as the talent show and is looking forward to rock steady”
• “Me and my three children have loved St Leonard’s from Nursery to Year 6 – thank you for all the support”
• “We are very grateful for your continued efforts to stretch and challenge”
• “we love the caring and engaged teachers”
• “There is a good community spirit, kind and caring environment. There is always something exciting for the children to look forward to”
• “We love the additional activities such as young voices, Lichfield cathedral Evensong and Got to dance at Lichfield Garrick”
• “St Leonard’s is a wonderful school; we are very happy with support and every day approach you offer to our child”
• “it has been great to see the introduction of additional opportunities such as the art project and gotta dance”.
• “ we love the family like community, wonderful teachers and wonderful children, we love that it is a faith led school supporting good Christian values”

Such feedback underscores the community’s deep trust in the education and care provided at St. Leonard’.

8. Overall Performance Snapshot

Headline Metrics at a Glance

• ⭐ 100% of parents would recommend St Leonard’s.
• ⭐ 100% of pupils are safe and happy.
• ⭐ 100% Curriculum transparency.
• ⭐ 100% SEND parents feel supported.
• ⭐ 100% recognise Christian values as a major strength.
• ⭐ 99% agree the school has high expectations and that children achieve well.
• ⭐ 96% praise behaviour and conduct.
• ⭐ 90% bullying concerns resolved effectively.

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9. Commitment to Continuous Excellence

While the results are exceptional, St Leonard’s remains committed to ongoing improvement. The school will continue to:

Next Steps

1. Expand extracurricular offerings to widen participation further, this will be focussed around afterschool clubs.
2. Maintain the open-door policy to ensure parents feel heard, valued, and supported.
3. Provide additional detail on events on class dojo so that new parents are clear on what they are and what parents need to know.

Additional areas to consider

1. Swimming provision – change of pool and catch up for those children who were impacted last year by the pool hire changes which affected local primary schools.
2. Perception that the school is getter bigger – with the exception of the two year groups that have been established for 30 children current y4 and y5, the school remains at 15 PAN (published admission number). Pupil numbers for the past three years have remained stable. When the current year 4 move to secondary school, St Leonard’s will move back to four mixed year classes. (N/R, Y1/2, Y3/4, Y5/6)
3. Newsletters – these are currently shared on dojo and the website. Parents have requested to move back to them being emailed.

Conclusion

The February 2026 Parent Questionnaire paints a clear picture:
St Leonard’s is a thriving, high-performing, deeply caring school community.

With:

• 100% recommendation
• Unanimous praise for safety, happiness, inclusion, and Christian values
• Near-perfect academic endorsement

…St Leonard’s stands as a school where every child is known, valued, and inspired to excel.

This success reflects the dedication of staff, the commitment of families, and the joyful spirit of the pupils themselves.