St Philip's School

Overview: St Philip's School is a warm, welcoming, and supportive school where pupils thrive. They settle quickly and benefit from the school's highly positive ethos of 'teamwork, kindness, and fun'. Pupils form strong relationships with their teachers and each other, and feel extremely happy and safe.

Strengths:

• The school has developed a highly ambitious curriculum that exceeds national expectations.
• Teachers have excellent subject knowledge and present information clearly.
• Pupils achieve highly across all areas of the curriculum and perform extremely well in senior school entrance exams.
• The school has high expectations of pupils' behaviour and conduct, with pupils demonstrating excellent attitudes to their learning.
• The school provides a broad range of clubs and activities, including debating, video game design, and sporting opportunities.

Areas to improve:

• The school should ensure that the workload and wellbeing of all staff, including leaders, is prioritised and monitored effectively.
• Governors do not have a clear enough oversight of some key aspects of the school's work, and should make sure that they have the skills and expertise to fulfil their roles successfully.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.