Bep Academy

Overview: Bep Academy is a school that provides an exceptional education, with pupils learning the curriculum very well and being extremely well prepared for the next stages in their education and lives. The school has a strong standard in achievement, inclusion, and personal development and wellbeing, with pupils feeling safe and happy to be at the school.

Strengths:

• Pupils learn the curriculum very well and are extremely well prepared for the next stages in their education and lives.
• The school has a strong standard in inclusion, with leaders quick to identify any possible barriers to learning and putting plans in place to ensure that these are overcome.
• Pupils are supported to have experiences that they would not have without this school, including visits to galleries and museums, and are well prepared for life in modern Britain.
• The personal, social and health education programme is incredibly well designed to meet the needs of all pupils at the school.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should continue their strategic positive work with parents, carers and pupils to ensure that the attendance of pupils at school continues to improve.
• Leaders should continue to support teachers, through effective training, to develop their ability to use adaptive teaching strategies to support pupils to learn the curriculum well.

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.