Oasis Academy Lister Park

Overview: Oasis Academy Lister Park is a good school where pupils feel safe and staff care about their well-being. The school provides a high-quality education, with a culture that values positive relationships and a strong community feel.

Strengths:

• The school is a caring environment where pupils feel safe and staff care about their well-being.
• Leaders have created a culture that values positive relationships and a strong community feel.
• Teachers have strong subject knowledge and present information clearly to pupils, creating positive learning environments.
• The school provides a range of enrichment experiences, including clubs and external visits, which develop pupils' interests and teamwork skills.
• Leaders have made reading a priority, with staff good at identifying pupils who are struggling to read and the school's recent work on prioritising the teaching of key vocabulary starting to have a positive impact.

Areas to improve:

• Attendance for some pupils is too low, with the school needing to sharpen its approach to tracking absence to secure improvements in pupils' attendance.
• The strategic approaches to support pupils with SEND are quite new, and gaps in learning still exist, with the school needing to accelerate its work in closing gaps in learning so that pupils with SEND achieve as well as their peers.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.