Torquay Boys' Grammar School

Overview: Torquay Boys' Grammar School is a high-achieving school with a strong sense of community and a focus on academic excellence. Pupils feel safe, known, and valued, and the school has a highly ambitious vision for its students.

Strengths:

• Pupils achieve highly at the school, with strong outcomes in GCSEs and A-levels.
• The school has a strong attendance record, with pupils feeling a strong sense of belonging and pride in their school.
• Pupils' behaviour is exemplary, with a positive attitude towards school and positive relationships with staff.
• The school has a strong pastoral care system, with pupils valuing the access they have to the school counsellor and the support they receive from their heads of house.
• The school has a wide range of enrichment activities, including international visits, clubs, and house activities.

Areas to improve:

• Teaching is not consistently effective, with teachers not always checking for pupils' understanding in lessons and pupils not always receiving feedback or having the opportunity to correct and improve their work.
• The school needs to embed a consistently high-quality approach to formative assessment across all subjects.
• The school needs to increase opportunities for younger pupils to engage directly and meaningfully with employers so that they develop a deeper understanding of the world of work and the pathways available to them after school.

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.