Apex Secondary School for Boys

Overview: Apex Secondary School for Boys is a well-performing independent school that provides a high-quality education to its pupils. The school has a strong focus on academic achievement, personal development, and safeguarding, and has created a positive and supportive learning environment.

Strengths:

• Pupils have a sound understanding of the knowledge and skills they are taught and are able to express their learning effectively in writing and verbally.
• Pupils progress well through the curriculum and are well-prepared for the next stages of their education.
• The school has a broad and logically ordered curriculum that is ambitious for all pupils.
• Staff use a range of suitable strategies to identify gaps in pupils' knowledge and inform their teaching.
• The school provides a safe and kind learning environment that supports pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should continue to embed the curriculum across all subjects so that all pupils achieve well.
• Leaders should ensure that their expectations of pupils' behaviour at different times are explicit, so that pupils understand what is expected of them and how to engage well with all learning activities.
• Leaders should enhance the careers education experience to better prepare pupils for their future working lives.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, meaning that leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight have established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.