Stamford, PE9 1HE · Lincolnshire · secondary school
Generated by AI from the official inspection report — not written by Ofsted or SchoolsGPT staff. Always read the full Ofsted PDF before relying on this summary.
Overview: Stamford Welland Academy is a highly inclusive school that provides excellent care for all its pupils, with leaders and staff showing genuine warmth and support. The school has a strong attendance and behaviour record, with pupils who struggle to attend school receiving incredible care and support. The school's personal development offer is a significant strength, with staff providing a range of enrichment and character-building opportunities.
Strengths:
• The school provides excellent care for all its pupils, with staff showing genuine warmth and support.
• Leaders and staff know pupils and families extremely well, working with external agencies and experts to review attendance information and identify patterns and trends.
• The school has a strong attendance and behaviour record, with pupils who struggle to attend school receiving incredible care and support.
• The school's personal development offer is a significant strength, with staff providing a range of enrichment and character-building opportunities.
• The school is highly inclusive, with leaders knowledgeable and ambitious for all pupils in their care.
Areas to improve:
• The school needs to ensure that pupils consistently develop important writing skills and knowledge across the curriculum, including spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
• Leaders need to embed highly effective subject curriculums, teaching, and assessment across the school so that all groups of pupils make positive and sustained progress across the curriculum and achieve consistently well.
Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon, and managed.
Lincolnshire has two separate 11+ tests depending on the school: 1. Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools (LCGS) test — used by 14 of the 15 grammar schools. Two GL Assessment multiple-choice papers, no English or Maths component: a Verbal Reasoning paper (around 50 minutes, roughly 85 questions) and a Non-Verbal & Spatial Reasoning paper (around 35 minutes, strictly sectioned — children complete each section in order and cannot skip ahead or go back). Registration is done once in Year 5 (deadline set annually by the consortium, historically around 30 June the year before entry) and covers every consortium school the family lists. 2. Caistor Grammar School — NOT part of the LCGS consortium, so a child applying to Caistor as well as another Lincolnshire grammar school sits two different sets of exams. Caistor runs its own two Verbal Reasoning papers in the autumn term of Year 6, with a separate, earlier registration deadline (historically mid-August). A combined score of 220 or more across both papers is needed to be eligible, targeting roughly the top quarter of applicants. For both tests, passing does not itself guarantee a place — a formal school application must still be submitted through the normal coordinated admissions process, and places are then allocated using each school's oversubscription criteria.
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Data sourced from GIAS, Ofsted and official Lincolnshire admissions publications. Figures can change year to year — always confirm with the school before applying.
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