St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College

Overview: St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College is a good school with outstanding behaviour and attitudes, and personal development. Students thrive in an inclusive learning community guided by Catholic values, and feel valued, respected, and listened to. Staff are aspirational for their students, resulting in highly motivated and ambitious students.

Strengths:

• Students with high needs are taught by staff who provide extensive specialist support to cater extremely well for their needs.
• Teachers promote discussion and encourage students to share their views, resulting in most students developing valuable new knowledge and skills.
• Students’ attendance and punctuality are very good, and they enjoy their lessons and are keen to make progress.
• Teachers provide effective support to students to help them improve their work, including targeted one-to-one intervention lessons.
• Staff provide an extremely broad enrichment curriculum, allowing students to develop their interests and talents exceptionally well.
• The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

Areas to improve:

• Implement fully actions to increase the proportion of students who achieve their qualifications.
• Correct students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors consistently.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.