Oasis Academy Nunsthorpe

Overview: Oasis Academy Nunsthorpe is a school that has undergone significant change in recent years, with all members of the leadership team starting in post within the last two years. The school provides a welcoming and safe place for pupils to learn and develop, with pupils enjoying coming to school and knowing that there are staff who they can speak to if they are worried about something.

Strengths:

• Leaders have an accurate understanding of the quality of the curriculum and how it is taught across the school.
• Leaders prioritise the teaching of the early stages in reading, writing and mathematics.
• Teachers adapt learning for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, providing effective strategies to help pupils to organise their ideas and access their learning.
• Leaders have established a cohesive approach to inclusion, working closely with the school’s pastoral support team to ensure that pupils’ needs and barriers to learning are known and understood.
• Leaders have taken decisive and effective action to raise standards, regularly gathering and reviewing information that informs the decisions they make to improve the school.

Areas to improve:

• Pupils have not achieved well in national tests, with a significant proportion of pupils, including those who are disadvantaged, not reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and/or mathematics.
• Pupils’ attendance has declined to below the national average, with the proportion of pupils who are persistently absent increasing.
• Leaders should continue their robust oversight of the attendance and punctuality of pupils so that more pupils attend school regularly and on time.
• Leaders should continue to ensure that actions taken to develop pupils’ knowledge and skills in the early stages of reading, writing and mathematics enable pupils to apply them effectively across the curriculum and make stronger progress.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.