Featherstone All Saints CofE Academy

Overview: Featherstone All Saints CofE Academy has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection, with pupils enjoying coming to school, feeling happy and safe, and developing a broad mix of academic, personal and social skills.

Strengths:

• Pupils say they are one big, massive family and feel happy and safe at school.
• The school has high expectations for all pupils, who respond well to this challenge and develop a broad mix of academic, personal and social skills.
• Pupils behave well, are courteous, polite and attentive in lessons, and have enthusiasm for learning.
• Pupils take an active part in the life of the school, participating in a range of clubs and activities, and develop business skills through enterprise challenges.

Areas to improve:

• New strategies to develop pupils' deeper knowledge and understanding are not fully embedded across the curriculum, meaning that on occasions, pupils are not challenged to develop an in-depth understanding in some subjects.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.