Progress Schools - Tees Valley

Overview: Progress Schools - Tees Valley is a good school that provides a safe and supportive environment for its pupils. The school knows and understands every pupil's needs and helps them to achieve examination qualifications at the end of Year 11. Pupils behave well and develop trusting relationships with staff.

Strengths:

• The school knows and understands every pupil's needs.
• Pupils value the school's approach and develop trusting relationships with staff.
• The school has created an environment in which pupils are safe, happy, and can flourish.
• Pupils behave well and meet the school's high expectations of their behaviour.
• The school prepares pupils well for the next stage of their education, training, or employment.

Areas to improve:

• Sometimes, staff do not secure pupils' basic knowledge effectively enough, meaning that pupils do not get sufficient time to apply their knowledge independently and deepen their learning.
• Pupils do not gain an age-appropriate knowledge of the protected characteristics and of fundamental British values.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.