Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff

Overview: Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff is a school that has achieved an exceptional standard, with leaders working above the standards expected of them. The school has a strong culture of high expectations and improvement, and pupils are made safer and feel safe due to the effective safeguarding measures in place.

Strengths:

• Strong attendance and behaviour, with leaders having established a strategic, whole-school approach to improving attendance and behaviour.
• A broad and ambitious curriculum that helps pupils build their learning, with teachers making highly effective choices about what to teach and when.
• Inclusion is at the heart of the school's work, with leaders having created a deeply inclusive culture where pupils' needs are swiftly and accurately identified through well-embedded systems.
• Highly effective leadership drives improvement for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), disadvantaged pupils, and those facing additional challenges.
• Leaders have a well-developed plan to continue to build on the school's successes, with a focus on improving pupils' learning and providing staff with excellent training and opportunities to collaborate.

Areas to improve:

• The school should ensure that the activities adults use in the early years are sufficiently well-designed and ambitious so that children consistently build upon what they already know and can do.
• Leaders should continue to embed the work that has taken place, so that pupils continue to develop a deep body of knowledge and skills across the curriculum, including in mathematics.

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.