St John's Business and Enterprise College

Overview

This report details a sustaining improvement inspection conducted in May 2017, which was significantly limited by industrial action. Because teachers and the principal refused to co-operate with inspectors, the ETI was unable to evaluate the school’s capacity for sustained improvement or the quality of education provided. Consequently, the report states that the inspectorate is “unable to assure parents/carers... of the quality of education being provided for the pupils.”

Strengths

• The previous 2014 inspection had evaluated the school’s overall effectiveness as “very good.”
• Pupils reported that they “feel safe in school” and know who to contact regarding safety concerns.
• The school provided evidence that safeguarding arrangements “reflect broadly the guidance issued by the relevant Departments.”

Areas to improve

• The school must address the “need... to review the security and access arrangements to the school’s sports complex.”
• The ETI was unable to fully evaluate safeguarding procedures or self-evaluation processes due to staff non-co-operation.
• The school is designated as a “high priority for future inspection with no further notice.”

Safeguarding

The report notes that while pupils feel safe and arrangements broadly reflect departmental guidance, the ETI was “unable to evaluate fully, the outworking of the arrangements for safeguarding in the school” due to the industrial action.