Ateres Girls High School

Overview: Ateres Girls High School requires improvement overall, with strengths in behaviour and attitudes, and good quality of education. However, the school's provision for personal development and leadership and management require improvement.

Strengths:

• Pupils are polite and friendly, showing respect and kindness to all.
• The school builds caring and trusting relationships with pupils and parents.
• Pupils achieve well in their GCSE examinations.
• The school prepares pupils well for the next stage of their academic education.
• Pupils behave well because they know it is the right thing to do.

Areas to improve:

• The school does not teach pupils about two of the protected characteristics: sexual orientation and gender reassignment.
• The school's provision for personal development is not coherently organised, and pupils do not gain enough knowledge about relationships.
• In some subjects, the curriculum is not organised coherently enough, and teachers do not build as effectively as they might on pupils' prior learning.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.