Dunblane High School

Overview

The inspection team found that young people are “very well motivated” and benefit from “strong positive relationships” that create a “very positive climate for learning.” Leaders work effectively with staff to ensure “high aspirations for all young people,” resulting in very good attainment and progress across the school.

Strengths

• Young people show “high levels of responsibility for their learning” and can “confidently state the progress they are making” due to highly effective feedback.
• There is a “very strong culture of participation and achievement,” with an “extensive range of activities” where successes are “recorded and celebrated... widely and highly effectively.”
• Senior leaders ensure “high aspirations for all young people,” leading to very good attainment, particularly in the Broad General Education and senior phase.
• “Effective tracking and monitoring ensures that young people make very good progress across the school.”

Areas to improve

• Continue to “refine highly effective practice in learning, teaching and assessment to continue to raise attainment for all young people.”
• Consider ways for young people to “gain accreditation through the extensive range of achievement opportunities” they participate in or lead.

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific narrative comments regarding safeguarding arrangements, though it notes that inspectors worked closely with the headteacher and staff during the visit.