Colmers School and Sixth Form College

Overview: Colmers School and Sixth Form College is a well-led and managed school that provides a high-quality education to its pupils. The school has made significant improvements in recent years, particularly in the teaching of the curriculum and pupils' behaviour.

Strengths:

• The school has a well-planned and ambitious curriculum that meets the needs of its pupils.
• Leaders have designed a programme for pupils' personal development that prepares them well for their next steps.
• Pupils are well prepared for life in modern Britain, learning about different cultures and religions and showing respect to others.
• The school has a strong focus on safeguarding, with leaders and governors fulfilling their specific responsibilities and establishing an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.
• The school has a clear process for staff to follow when dealing with conduct issues, and staff typically use this well.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should continue to work to remove barriers to regular attendance for some pupils so that the number of pupils attending regularly continues to increase.
• Leaders should ensure that the curriculum is delivered to a consistently high standard so that pupils are equipped to achieve consistently well, including in national examinations.
• The school should continue to improve attendance, with pupils' attendance rates below national averages.

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.