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Overview: The school does not meet all of the independent school standards that were checked during this inspection. The quality of education remains inconsistent, with curriculum design and implementation still in development, and the sixth-form offer limited and unclear.
Strengths:
- Pupils are in the process of learning a richer body of knowledge.
- Plans to develop pupils’ reading, development of knowledge and skills, and love of learning, are well underway.
- The school’s assessment system is being increasingly well used by teachers to check that pupils understand important knowledge before they move on in their learning.
- The positive culture for behaviour continues, with staff and pupils knowing and understanding the school’s expectations for their behaviour.
- Pupils value the recognition they are given for positive behaviour, such as awards and rewards.
Areas to improve:
- The quality of education remains inconsistent, with curriculum design and implementation still in development.
- The sixth-form offer is limited and unclear.
- Safeguarding arrangements are ineffective, with administrative errors in the single central record, a lack of detail in the risk assessment policy, and concerns about how leaders ensure that staff understand and follow agreed arrangements for keeping pupils safe.
- The school’s safeguarding records lack rigour, and first-aid policy and record-keeping lack precision.
- The school’s approach to address bullying has no strategic oversight, and the anti-bullying policy does not make expectations for reporting concerns raised clear enough.
- The proprietor has not taken appropriate action in regard to changes in the governance of the school, including the proposed change to the chair of the proprietor body and the recruitment of new trustees.
Safeguarding: Safeguarding arrangements are ineffective, with administrative errors in the single central record, a lack of detail in the risk assessment policy, and concerns about how leaders ensure that staff understand and follow agreed arrangements for keeping pupils safe.