NexGen Academy

Overview:

NexGen Academy is a well-ordered and welcoming school that provides a calm environment for pupils to learn. The school has high aspirations for all pupils and helps them to focus on their learning and achieve well. Pupils benefit from effective emotional support and grow in self-belief, finding school a positive experience.

Strengths:

• The school has high aspirations for all pupils and provides a calm, well-ordered, and welcoming environment.

• Pupils benefit from effective emotional support and grow in self-belief.

• The school prioritises regular attendance and sets high expectations for behaviour, which helps pupils to achieve well.

• Pupils develop their willingness to try new things and support charities through fundraising.

• The school provides a range of enrichment activities, such as weight-training, dance, boxing, hair and beauty, or cookery.

Areas to improve:

• At times, the school does not identify and address what some pupils most need to learn in English and mathematics consistently well, particularly for pupils who have experienced disrupted education in the past and those with SEND.

• The school's systems to record and retrieve important information about pupils are not as efficient as they could be, making it more difficult for the proprietor to have a secure oversight of the effectiveness of the work of the school.

Safeguarding:

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.