Auchenharvie Academy

Overview

The inspection team found that Auchenharvie Academy has “very successfully developed and maintained a supportive, safe and positive environment for learning.” Young people are described as “eager participants” who demonstrate “high levels of engagement.” The report concludes that the school has the capacity to continue to improve, with no further visits required.

Strengths

• Staff promote equity successfully, resulting in “nearly all young people moving on to positive destinations.”
• The headteacher and senior leaders have led “effectively a positive and sustained approach to improving the attainment and achievements for all young people.”
• Young people are “very aware of the skills they are developing” and are “well motivated to learn across different contexts.”
• Evaluations for “Learning, teaching and assessment” and “Raising attainment and achievement” were both rated as “very good.”

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders and staff should “continue to work together to increase further the consistency of high-quality learning and teaching across the school.”
• Teachers should “improve further their approaches to meeting the learning needs of all young people, including the most able.”

Safeguarding

The report states that the school has “very successfully developed and maintained a supportive, safe and positive environment for learning.”