St Wilfrid's Catholic Comprehensive School, Crawley

Overview: St Wilfrid's Catholic Comprehensive School, Crawley is a good school that continues to provide a safe and inclusive environment for its diverse community of pupils. The school's strong values and moral principles are reflected in its leadership and teaching practices.

Strengths:

• Pupils are proud to be part of a big community that shares strong values.
• Pupils and parents say that this is ‘their’ school, with diverse backgrounds celebrated in a safe environment.
• School leaders have high expectations, based on their clear moral principles, and leaders prioritise academic and personal development equally.
• Pupils’ behaviour is excellent, with pupils being polite and courteous, and very little bullying.
• Teachers are experts in their subjects, giving pupils useful feedback on the quality of their work, and leaders ensure that pupils regularly reflect on what they are learning.

Areas to improve:

• Sometimes, teachers are not ambitious enough, and teaching activities do not help all pupils, especially the most able, to learn the ambitious curriculum.
• The proportion of pupils who take a modern foreign language, as well as either history or geography, is very small.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with safeguarding leaders being experienced and well-trained, and staff following procedures well and reporting concerns promptly.