Apex Secondary School for Girls

Overview: Apex Secondary School for Girls is a thriving school where pupils achieve well across the curriculum, make secure gains in English and mathematics, and are confident, articulate, and fluent speakers. The school has a calm and orderly environment, with positive relationships between pupils and staff.

Strengths:

• Pupils generally achieve well across the curriculum, making secure gains in English and mathematics.
• Pupils are confident, articulate, and fluent speakers, with a particular strength in oracy.
• The school's behaviour policy is underpinned by appropriate values, encouraging positive behaviour and respect for others.
• Leaders have developed a curriculum that is ambitious in content and breadth, covering all required areas of learning.
• The school's personal development programme is well planned, delivered effectively, and prioritises the development of pupils' character.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should ensure that staff are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to ensure that pupils' learning is consistently supported by high-quality modelling.
• The proprietor should ensure that the systems for recording and analysing pupil and staff information are consistently well used to provide leaders with the insights they need to enhance the support that pupils and staff receive.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and establishing an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon, and managed.