Sir Thomas Fremantle School

Overview: Sir Thomas Fremantle School continues to be a good school, with a new vision underpinned by an inclusive ethos and ambition for all. The school's 'RISE' values are understood and embraced by most pupils, who are proud of their school and feel safe.

Strengths:

• The school's new vision is underpinned by an inclusive ethos and ambition for all.
• The school's 'RISE' values (Resilience, Integrity, Success, Empathy) are understood and embraced by most pupils.
• Most behaviour in lessons and around the school is positive and there are respectful relationships between pupils and with staff.
• Pupils are happy and welcoming, and feel safe and understand that bullying is not tolerated.
• The school's personal development programme is thorough and undergoing further review.
• Pupils learn how to navigate real and online worlds and relationships, and explore diversity and social issues such as homelessness.
• The school's careers provision benefits from a wide range of partners from the world of work, education and training.
• Staff take care to ensure that personal development, careers and extra-curricular activities are accessible to all.

Areas to improve:

• In some areas, and for some pupils, the school's highest levels of curriculum thinking are not fully embedded, resulting in some pupils not achieving as well as they could, especially in terms of their written work and in key stage 3.
• Sometimes the school's routines and behaviour approaches are not used as consistently as they could be, resulting in a small number of pupils not meeting the school's high expectations for behaviour.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.