St Roch's Secondary School

Overview

The inspection team found that St Roch’s Secondary School demonstrates good performance across all four quality indicators, including leadership, learning, wellbeing, and attainment. The report highlights a strong school culture underpinned by meaningful values and effective partnerships, resulting in positive outcomes for young people. Inspectors expressed confidence in the school’s capacity to continue improving without further visits.

Strengths

• Young people are described as a “considerate strength,” benefiting from “mutually respectful and positive relationships” with staff and a strong sense of belonging.
• The headteacher provides “strong strategic leadership,” ensuring values such as faith, inclusion, and compassion underpin the daily culture.
• Staff work effectively with partners to support wellbeing and achievement, helping young people secure “positive post-school destinations.”
• The Department of Deaf Education offers “sector leading support,” with skilled staff delivering “very high-quality learning and teaching” that fosters confidence and pride in deaf identity.

Areas to improve

• The headteacher should enhance the leadership of all staff, specifically by developing the role of middle leaders in supporting strategic improvement.
• Staff should work together to deliver effective learning and teaching, ensuring all young people experience greater levels of “pace and challenge.”
• Senior leaders and staff should raise attainment for all young people based on increased ambition and develop a wider range of learner pathways.

Safeguarding

The report states that staff foster “mutually respectful and positive relationships with young people and families” and that the school community routinely celebrates diversity to create a “strong sense of belonging and inclusion.”