The Langley Academy

Overview

The Langley Academy is rated as ‘Good’ across all inspection categories, including overall effectiveness, the quality of education, and leadership. Inspectors found that staff hold high expectations, fostering an inclusive culture where pupils demonstrate positive attitudes and achieve well in many subjects.

Strengths

• Pupils benefit from ‘clearly communicated learning routines’ that promote appropriate behaviour and conduct.
• The school maintains an ‘inclusive culture with high levels of respect for diversity’, where discrimination is not tolerated.
• Leaders have designed an ‘ambitious and broad curriculum’ that stretches and challenges all pupils, including increased focus on the English Baccalaureate.
• Staff receive effective training and support, with leaders taking action to manage workload so that ‘many staff feel well supported’.
• Safeguarding arrangements are ‘effective’, with clear systems, comprehensive record-keeping, and timely actions by leaders.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must ensure actions to improve sixth-form attendance are ‘carefully monitored and evaluated’ as some students do not attend often enough.
• In a small number of subjects, leaders must ensure that the knowledge pupils are to be taught is ‘precisely identified’ and informs assessment, as it is currently not always clear.

Safeguarding

The report states that ‘the arrangements for safeguarding are effective’, noting that staff are kept up to date with relevant training and that systems are responsive to the community’s needs.