Chapeltown Academy

Overview

Chapeltown Academy continues to be a "good provider," offering a supportive and inclusive environment where students enjoy learning. Leaders have implemented swift and effective improvements following recent changes in leadership, resulting in high-quality teaching and strong student outcomes.

Strengths

• Students benefit from an "ambitious range of courses" that enable progression to degree-level study and apprenticeships.
• Teachers are "highly qualified" and use effective strategies, such as live marking and spaced retrieval, to deepen understanding and address knowledge gaps.
• Students receive "good-quality careers information, advice and guidance," including purposeful work experience placements.
• Leaders have developed new systems to monitor teaching quality, ensuring actions are "clear and implemented effectively."
• Most students, including those with high needs, "achieve well and make good progress from their starting points."

Areas to improve

• Ensure that newly developed quality processes are "fully embedded and their impact monitored."
• Develop students’ confidence to "articulate, present and debate their knowledge and understanding well."
• Ensure all students are aware of local risks, as "too many students are not aware of the risks they may face in their local communities."

Safeguarding

The report states that "the arrangements for safeguarding are effective."