Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College

Overview

Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College is rated ‘Outstanding’ across all inspection categories. The report describes a ‘positive and inclusive culture’ where students are ‘courteous and highly respectful’, benefiting from ‘inspiring teaching’ and a ‘stimulating and highly supportive environment’.

Strengths

• Students exhibit ‘consistently exemplary’ behaviour and are ‘highly motivated’, resulting in high attendance and rapid progress.
• Teachers ‘communicate new concepts skilfully’ and use questioning to challenge students, fostering a ‘deep, nuanced understanding’ of complex subjects.
• The curriculum is ‘sequenced logically and effectively’, allowing students to build knowledge progressively and achieve ‘ambitious targets’.
• Leaders provide ‘effective careers advice and guidance’, ensuring students are well prepared for ‘highly competitive universities, apprenticeships or employment’.
• Staff well-being is prioritised through an ethos of ‘high challenge, low threat’, supported by ‘highly effective’ governance.

Areas to improve

• Leaders ‘do not work consistently with employers to inform and evolve the implementation of the curriculum’, though relationships are developing.
• While teachers provide learning opportunities on safety, ‘not all students recall fully their learning on local risks’.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are ‘effective’, with a ‘positive culture’ maintained by appropriately qualified staff and robust recruitment processes.