Outwood Grange Academy

Overview

Outwood Grange Academy is a large secondary school where pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, are “positive about their education and achieve well.” The report highlights “excellent provision to support their personal development” through exceptional enrichment and life programmes, alongside a curriculum with “academic rigour” that prepares students effectively for future stages.

Strengths

• Pupils benefit from “well-thought-out ‘learning journeys’” and teachers who “present new learning with clarity” and effectively correct misconceptions.
• The school offers “exceptional enrichment, leadership and life programmes” that foster leadership, sporting, creative, and academic skills.
• There is a “very effective system for supporting struggling readers,” including a well-established phonics programme that builds fluency and confidence.
• Leaders provide “detailed oversight of the needs of pupils with SEND,” using individual profiles to shape teaching so that “many pupils with SEND achieve well.”
• The sixth form is described as “supportive” with students who are “determined learners with high aspirations.”

Areas to improve

• The school should continue to monitor and adapt systems to support the “small proportion of pupils” whose conduct is “not reflective of leaders’ high expectations.”
• The school should review its communication systems to address parental frustration regarding “how it responds to concerns that they raise.”

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”