Brookfield Community School

Overview: Brookfield Community School provides a welcoming and supportive environment where pupils feel safe and happy. The school has high expectations for pupils' achievement and provides a range of extra-curricular activities that enrich pupils' experiences and foster a sense of belonging.

Strengths:

• Pupils behave very well, demonstrating focus and collaboration in lessons and being calm and orderly as they move around the school.
• The school offers an extensive range of extra-curricular activities that enrich pupils' experiences and foster a sense of belonging.
• Pupils take on leadership roles through sub-committees focused on curriculum, pastoral care and well-being, and responsibilities such as student ambassadors and sports leaders offer pupils a meaningful voice in shaping school decisions.
• The school's curriculum is ambitious, broad and balanced with a strong vocational offer, and content builds effectively on prior learning, supporting curriculum continuity.
• The school supports pupils to make well-informed decisions on their next steps, and careers education is a standout strength, with the number of pupils progressing into sustained education, employment or training significantly above average.

Areas to improve:

• The school should ensure that recent initiatives, such as the reading programme and the development of literacy skills, are developed as intended and reviewed systematically to ensure ongoing improvements in pupils' outcomes.
• On occasion, some teachers do not use strategies to support disadvantaged pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), as effectively as they could to adapt the delivery of the curriculum.
• Pupils' reading and literacy skills are still being fully developed, and efforts to promote subject-specific vocabulary and extended disciplinary texts are not applied consistently.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.