Bellshill Academy

Overview

The inspection team found that young people are welcoming, respectful, and keen to learn, with a strong sense of belonging. Positive relationships allow students to feel safe and supported in nurturing learning environments. The report evaluates both learning, teaching and assessment and raising attainment and achievement as "satisfactory".

Strengths

• Young people are "welcoming, respectful and keen to learn" and have a "strong sense of belonging to the school community."
• "Positive relationships across the school allow young people to feel safe and supported in nurturing learning environments."
• Teachers have developed "clear routines and expectations" through a shared structure, contributing to "more consistent learning experiences."
• Students benefit from a "wide variety of achievement activities," which are "planned carefully with supportive external partners."

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders should continue to improve the quality of learning, teaching and assessment, ensuring tasks are set at an "appropriate level of challenge for all young people."
• The school must raise attainment across the school, with a specific focus on improving the quality of passes in S4-6.
• Senior leaders should closely monitor the impact of all interventions to raise attainment and achievement to ensure they are "impacting positively on outcomes for young people."

Safeguarding

The report states that positive relationships across the school allow young people to feel safe and supported in nurturing learning environments.