Progress Schools - Wolverhampton

Overview: Progress Schools - Wolverhampton is a caring school with high aspirations for every pupil. Pupils feel happy and positive, and enjoy coming to school and working hard in lessons. The school prioritises English and mathematics to help pupils catch up on missed learning.

Strengths:

• Pupils feel safe and free from bullying, and know they can share any worries with a trusted adult.
• The proprietor body provides effective leadership and monitoring of the school, ensuring that the independent school standards are met.
• Leaders have a clear vision for the school, starting with developing relationships between home and school and setting clear expectations of behaviour and engagement.
• Teachers have good subject knowledge and present information clearly to pupils, checking pupils' understanding and giving pupils clear feedback.

Areas to improve:

• Some parts of the curriculum are at an earlier stage of being reviewed and refined, and at times, some units of work contain too much content that can be taught within curriculum time.
• Some curriculum leaders are still relatively new to their post, and leaders should ensure that curriculum leaders have the opportunity to access support to be able to effectively lead their curriculum area and evaluate the impact of their subject over time.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.