Culloden Academy

Overview

The inspection team found that relationships across Culloden Academy are “warm, positive and based on the school values of kindness and respect,” creating calm environments for learning. While young people benefit from a wide range of activities and enthusiastic staff, the evaluations for “Learning, teaching and assessment” and “Raising attainment and achievement” were both rated as “satisfactory.” The report confirms the school has the capacity to continue to improve without further visits.

Strengths

• Relationships are described as “warm, positive and based on the school values of kindness and respect.”
• Young people learn in “calm environments which support them to engage well in their learning.”
• Students benefit from a “wide range of activities, clubs and programmes, offered by enthusiastic staff and partners.”
• Staff collaborate effectively with partners to “support the curriculum, enhance learning experiences, and increase opportunities for young people to attain and achieve.”

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders and staff should ensure young people benefit from “effective questioning and appropriate pace and challenge in all lessons.”
• Staff should use “assessment and tracking data more effectively to plan learning and teaching to better meet needs of individuals and groups of learners.”
• Leaders should work to “raise attainment for all young people across the school” so they attain at the highest level in line with their ability.

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific statements regarding safeguarding arrangements or outcomes.