Linburn Academy

Overview

The inspection team found that the leadership team leads the school “very effectively,” supporting teachers to plan lessons that provide a “wide range of opportunities for success.” Staff demonstrate “high levels of care and compassion,” fostering positive relationships that help young people engage well in their learning. The report concludes that the school has the capacity to continue to improve, with no further visits required.

Strengths

• Leadership supports teachers to plan lessons providing “a wide range of opportunities for success.”
• Staff show “high levels of care and compassion,” building positive relationships that support engagement.
• Staff’s “extensive knowledge of each young person” helps meet individual needs, supporting attendance and settling.
• Collaboration with partners helps young people build “a wide range of valuable skills in preparation for their adult life.”

Areas to improve

• Teachers should develop how they use progress checks to “inform lesson planning and improve learners’ progress.”
• Senior leaders need to develop a “more strategic overview of priorities for improvement.”
• Teachers should continue to develop approaches, including using technologies, to support young people to “communicate across the school.”

Safeguarding

The report states that staff show “high levels of care and compassion” and that positive relationships support young people to engage well, while noting that the evaluation for “Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion” is “good.”