Queen Eleanor's Church of England School

Overview: Queen Eleanor's Church of England School continues to be a good school, where pupils are happy and feel safe, and leaders have high expectations and pupils achieve well.

Strengths:

• Pupils are taught how to behave in ways that match the school's values of honesty, trust, kindness and respect.
• Leaders have high aspirations for pupils, shown in their careful thinking about the curriculum, especially for reading, writing and mathematics.
• Staff ensure that the needs of pupils with SEND are met very well, with the special educational needs coordinator working closely with teachers to support pupils to achieve the same ambitious endpoints as their peers.
• The school has a well-planned curriculum for personal, social, health and economic education, including relationship and sex education, which is introduced in an age-appropriate way.
• Leaders consider the well-being of staff as well as pupils, with recent changes reducing the workload of teachers.

Areas to improve:

• In some subjects, leaders have not thought carefully enough about what it is they want pupils to learn, resulting in a consistently logical sequence for the curriculum not being in place.
• Teachers have not always fully understood the purpose of learning activities in the way that leaders intend, leading to some activities not being used as effectively as they could be.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with staff well-trained in identifying pupils who are at risk of harm, and well-understood procedures in place to raise concerns.