Drummond Community High School

Overview

The inspection found that Drummond Community High School benefits from effective leadership and strong staff relationships, creating a supportive environment for pupils. While learning, teaching, and attainment are evaluated as ‘good’, the report identifies specific areas requiring further development to ensure consistent high-quality provision and wellbeing support for all young people.

Strengths

• The headteacher provides ‘effective leadership’ that drives ‘meaningful change and improvement’, underpinned by the vision of ‘nurturing big ambitions’.
• Staff cultivate ‘strong, mutually respectful relationships’ with pupils, resulting in a ‘welcoming, supportive and calm environment’ where young people are ‘polite, respectful and proud of their school’.
• Teachers use digital technology ‘creatively and effectively’ to support learning, including providing ‘high-quality learning materials’ and opportunities for independent study.
• Staff are ‘extending the curriculum’ to offer a ‘broader range of pathways’, which is improving attainment for pupils in S5 and S6.

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders must develop a ‘whole school approach’ to meeting the needs of all pupils, including a ‘systematic approach to planning’ for those requiring additional support.
• Staff should ‘embed fully’ approaches to learning, teaching, and assessment, monitoring their impact to ensure ‘high-quality learning and teaching across all classes’.
• Staff need to better support pupil wellbeing by developing approaches that enable young people to be ‘aware of and confident in discussing their wellbeing’.
• Strategies to raise attainment should continue, with a specific focus on improving ‘literacy and numeracy attainment in the senior phase’.

Safeguarding

The report evaluates the quality indicator for ‘Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion’ as ‘satisfactory’ and notes that staff should develop approaches to help young people feel confident in discussing their wellbeing.