All Saints' Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary Academy

Overview:

Pupils value the warm family atmosphere of the school, and staff are highly visible around the school site, promoting a calm and friendly atmosphere. However, the school requires improvement in several areas, including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and safeguarding is effective.

Strengths:

• Pupils value the warm family atmosphere of the school.
• Pupils show respect for the range of backgrounds and cultures found within the school community.
• Pupils benefit from strong relationships with staff who know them well and care about their well-being.
• Teachers have secure subject knowledge and benefit from regular opportunities to share expertise with their colleagues.
• The school has designed a broad and balanced curriculum in many subjects.

Areas to improve:

• The school should ensure that it finalises its curriculum thinking in some subjects, so that teachers know what pupils should learn.
• Sometimes, teachers do not check carefully or quickly enough that pupils’ knowledge is secure before new knowledge is introduced.
• Too many pupils are absent and persistently absent from school, missing out on valuable learning which hampers their achievement.
• On occasions, some staff do not set the clear expectations for pupils’ behaviour that the school’s policy requires.
• The school should ensure that pupils who find reading difficult receive the support that they need to overcome gaps in their reading knowledge.

Safeguarding:

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.