OFSTED 2024

• Pupils benefit from a well-planned and ambitious curriculum.
• The school has high expectations.
• Staff take care to revisit and extend pupils’ understanding of key content.
• This results in confident pupils, who remember previous learning well and are ready for the challenge of new learning.
• The school is caring and nurturing.
• Staff build positive, warm and respectful relationships with pupils. This helps pupils to feel happy and safe.
• Pupils behave well in and out of lessons and are kind to and respectful of each other.
• They enjoy school and trust teachers to prepare them well for the next steps in their future.
• The wide offer of visits, clubs, and close links to experts across the local
  and business communities provides a ‘window on the world’.
• Pupils also relish the range of leadership opportunities, including student council and pupils voice projects.
• They are proud of their work and organise their written work coherently, including those in the sixth form.
• The school prioritises reading for all pupils.
• The school checks pupils’ reading progress routinely and ensures everyone reads to develop their fluency and confidence.
• Pupils’ generally attend well, and attendance is continuing to improve. The school works to understand the reasons for pupils’ absence and works well with individual families to address these.
• Pupils behave well in lessons supported by the school’s clear routines and high expectations.
• The school is calm and orderly.
• Relationships are positive and based on mutual respect between pupils and staff.
• The wider curriculum promotes pupils' personal development well. The personal, social, health and economic curriculum is used to carefully prepare pupils for their future lives. They learn how to recognise healthy relationships and how to stay safe, both in the community and online.
• The school uses clubs, trips and visitors to broaden pupils' horizons.
• Careers education is well developed.
• Thoughtful events such as work experience and support for individuals ensures that pupils are well informed about future choices.
• The school works positively with staff and parents.
• One parent reflected the views of many when they commented, 'they put pupils’ well-being and academic achievement at the forefront of everything that they do.