The Crompton House Church of England Academy

Overview: The Crompton House Church of England Academy continues to be a good school, providing a calm and purposeful environment for pupils to learn and grow. Pupils develop trusting relationships with staff and each other, and feel happy and safe in school.

Strengths:

• Pupils uphold the school's core values of caring for each other and achieving excellence in all that they do.
• Pupils develop trusting relationships with staff and each other, and benefit from strong pastoral support.
• The school's library is a hive of activity throughout the day, and pupils typically read often in school.
• Staff identify pupils' additional needs quickly and effectively, and provide well-considered strategies to improve their reading knowledge.
• The school is a calm, purposeful place to learn and work, with pupils moving around the building in an orderly way and behaving well.

Areas to improve:

• In a small number of subjects, teachers do not identify or act on the gaps in pupils' knowledge quickly enough, which hampers their progress through the curriculum.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.