BOA Stage and Screen Production Academy

Overview

BOA Stage and Screen Production Academy is a specialist 16 to 19 academy rated as ‘Good’ for overall effectiveness, with ‘Outstanding’ behaviour and attitudes. The provider offers highly specialised curricula in creative industries, enabling learners to gain industry-valued skills and secure positive destinations.

Strengths

• Learners benefit from ‘ambitious curriculums’ co-designed with sector leaders, ensuring relevance to film, television, and theatre careers.
• Staff are ‘experts in their specialist subjects’ with extensive industry experience, providing high-quality work experiences and professional workshops.
• The academy fosters a ‘welcoming, calm and supportive environment’ where learners demonstrate ‘mutual tolerance and respect’.
• Most learners achieve their qualifications with distinction grades and successfully move into employment, apprenticeships, or university.
• Strong industry links allow learners to work on significant live projects, such as productions for the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Areas to improve

• Ensure that feedback is sufficiently targeted and individualised to help learners identify precise actions for improvement.
• Ensure teachers consistently check learners’ understanding, particularly by using questioning techniques that allow learners to expand on answers.
• Ensure learners are aware of the risks regarding radicalisation and extremism, as too few can currently recall this content.

Safeguarding

The report states that ‘the arrangements for safeguarding are effective’, noting that learners feel safe, know who to speak to, and are confident staff will deal with concerns quickly.