Parkhall Integrated College

Overview

The report describes Parkhall Integrated College as a school where “key changes are being worked through strategically to effect necessary improvement” under new leadership. It highlights a “re-designed, inclusive curriculum model” and a renewed vision focused on achievement, noting that outcomes have improved since 2019. However, the inspection identifies that pupils’ communication skills and wider dispositions remain “underdeveloped,” requiring focused attention.

Strengths

• A new vision and core values, including “Achievement,” are “well understood and known by the school community.”
• The curriculum has been redesigned to provide “equitable access to the full range of subject options” for all pupils.
• Staff benefit from “effective professional learning” and a consistent approach to lesson structure and assessment.
• The school instils a “strong social conscience” and prioritises pupil health, wellbeing, and community connections.
• Targeted support for pupils at risk of underachieving in English and mathematics has led to results that “exceeded their predicted outcomes.”

Areas to improve

• Improve the “quality and challenge of the learning experiences” to better develop pupils’ communication (oracy and written) skills and wider dispositions.
• “Monitor and evaluate the progress being made in the implementation of the recent changes to the curriculum.”

Safeguarding

The report states that “arrangements for child protection align to the current statutory guidance” and that the policy reflects changes in adult protection arrangements.