Ofsted Report

• The school achieves its highly ambitious vision by helping pupils to ‘enjoy and excel’.
• This ethos permeates school life. Parents and carers, staff and pupils reflect this in their highly positive views of the school.
• Pupils have exemplary attitudes to their learning and engage with the wealth of opportunities available. They become exceptionally well-rounded individuals.
• Pupils’ academic outcomes at the end of their courses are excellent. They are very well prepared for their next steps in their lives.
• Pupils behave with maturity. They feel empowered to play a role in maintaining the school’s high standards of behaviour.
• In lessons, pupils are resilient when faced with challenging learning.
• There are countless opportunities for pupils to develop their leadership skills.
• Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), study a strong, broad and ambitious curriculum across all year groups. The curriculum is exceptionally well thought through.
• Teachers have strong subject and teaching knowledge.
• Pupils’ accurate use of subject-specific vocabulary contributes to the high-quality work that they consistently produce.
• There is a rich and well-considered wider development offer.
• This vast array of activities demonstrates the school’s support for pupils’ moral and character development. The school’s comprehensive careers programme further helps to raise pupils’ aspirations.
• Pupils thrive at this highly inclusive school, which expects all its pupils to succeed.

The full report will be published on the Ofsted website here.