Lime Academy Hornbeam

Overview

Lime Academy Hornbeam continues to be a good school, providing a welcoming environment where pupils are kind and accepting of others. Staff know pupils well, offering personalised support that helps maintain a calm and settled atmosphere where pupils behave well. The school prioritises early reading and fosters pupils’ independence, communication, and emotional well-being through a broad and ambitious curriculum.

Strengths

• Pupils are “kind and accepting of others” and work alongside one another regardless of differences.
• Staff use their knowledge of pupils to keep them safe and provide “personalised support.”
• The curriculum is “broad and ambitious,” with clear expectations in most subjects and a strong focus on early reading.
• Teachers present information clearly, promote vocabulary use, and correct misconceptions when they arise.
• The school has taken “decisive action to improve pupils’ rates of attendance” by working with parents and rewarding regular attendance.

Areas to improve

• In a few subjects, “curriculum thinking lacks precision,” making it unclear what pupils on each pathway are expected to be taught and when.
• Checks on what pupils know and remember over time are “not routinely effective at picking up and addressing any gaps in pupils’ knowledge.”

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.