Oasis Academy Blakenhale Junior

Overview: Oasis Academy Blakenhale Junior has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection. Pupils love attending this school, which is at the heart of its community, and feel safe and well cared for. They are friendly and welcoming, with impeccable behaviour, and achieve well across a range of subjects.

Strengths:

• Pupils are very well cared for and feel safe.
• Pupils are friendly and welcoming, with impeccable behaviour.
• Staff have high expectations for pupils and most pupils achieve well across a range of subjects.
• The school offers a broad and varied enrichment programme, including cheerleading, gardening, sewing and DJing, to name but a few.
• The school's work to promote pupils' personal development is highly effective, underpinned by its vision to promote 'healthy bodies, healthy minds and promising futures'.

Areas to improve:

• Pupils who have fallen behind with their reading are not catching up quickly enough, resulting in gaps in their learning and a lack of preparation for their next steps.
• There are some instances when the subject content is not taught as well as intended, resulting in pupils not gaining as much knowledge as they could.
• The school should ensure that teachers have the expertise to teach the range of subjects effectively.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.