Queen's Croft High School

Overview

Queen’s Croft High School is described as a “rapidly improving school” where leaders are “steering the school through a period of significant instability.” The report confirms that the school “continues to be a good school,” noting that staff are “caring and compassionate” and that pupils increasingly develop into “confident and resilient young people.”

Strengths

• Staff effectively meet pupils’ “academic and therapeutic needs” by building a “coherent picture of the help and support pupils need.”
• A rejuvenated phonics curriculum is “well planned” and delivered with “precision,” helping pupils learn to read in a “timely manner.”
• Behaviour has “improved a great deal” through the use of “restorative conversations” and effective targeted support.
• Leaders have “revitalised” their approach to supporting pupils with special educational needs, ensuring they make “sound progress towards their individual educational and health goals.”
• Pupils benefit from enrichment activities that promote independence, such as hosting community events and engaging in voluntary work.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must ensure the curriculum is “equally well planned across all subjects,” as some areas lack clearly defined knowledge, which “holds pupils back.”
• The school should provide a “broad range of meaningful encounters with the world of work” to widen pupils’ understanding of future career pathways.
• The school needs to continue subject knowledge enhancement work so all teachers have sufficient expertise to select appropriate learning activities.

Safeguarding

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