St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School

Overview: St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School is a large, inner-city school with a diverse population, where pupils and students join from across the city. The school has high expectations and prepares pupils thoroughly for the future, both academically and personally. Pupils achieve well in their published outcomes, and the sixth form is large with a significant number of students joining in Year 12.

Strengths:

• The school's 'Alive' curriculum is ambitious and has been developed over a long period of time, carefully designed to consider what pupils will learn and when to ensure the content is relevant and meaningful for all pupils.
• Teachers help pupils to remember and recall their learning well, through strategies such as demonstrating and questioning, and pupils progress well through the curriculum.
• The school has an ambitious approach to helping pupils to be confident readers and to have a love of books, through the tutor reading programme, and checks carefully to understand what the reading needs of pupils are.
• The school is precise in tracking how well pupils come to school, and knows and understands the situation of each pupil, especially those who are refugees or who face challenging circumstances.

Areas to improve:

• In a few parts of the curriculum, information about what pupils know and can recall is not used effectively, and some pupils are not clear about what they need to do next to improve their learning.
• Strategies to adapt the learning for pupils with SEND when it is needed are not well implemented in some lessons, and when this happens, pupils do not progress with their learning as well as they could.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.