Bellerive FCJ Catholic College

Overview: Bellerive FCJ Catholic College is a school that has made significant improvements in recent years, with leaders and governors working to raise expectations and improve outcomes for all pupils. The school has a strong culture of safeguarding, and pupils are happy and enjoy attending the school.

Strengths:

• The school has a precise understanding of the strengths of the curriculum, which is broad and ambitious.
• Leaders have created a culture that is kind, compassionate and respectful, with pupils readily meeting the school's high expectations for their conduct.
• The school's ethos and vision are firmly rooted in inclusion, with each pupil recognised and appreciated as an individual.
• Leaders have thought carefully about how best to foster a sense of belonging among pupils, placing the school's ethos of creating a caring community at the heart of the personal development and wellbeing programme.
• The school's use of pupil premium funding is effective in enabling disadvantaged pupils to engage fully with the curriculum and benefit from the wider opportunities the school provides.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should build upon their work so that pupils' misconceptions and gaps in knowledge are addressed quickly and effectively across subjects.
• Leaders should check that the adaptations and adjustments that pupils need are more consistently used across the curriculum so that pupils flourish.
• Leaders should ensure that the high expectations for what all pupils can achieve are firmly embedded across the school.

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