Turning Point Academy

Overview: Pupils at Turning Point Academy flourish in a positive and supportive environment, with strong relationships between pupils and staff. The school provides an impressive range of activities and experiences that help pupils develop their talents and interests, and prepares them exceptionally well for life in modern Britain.

Strengths:

• Pupils are respectful and kind to others, and benefit from extremely positive relationships with staff.
• The school empowers pupils to succeed in aspects of the curriculum where they may have found learning difficult in the past.
• Pupils have highly positive attitudes towards their learning, and lessons proceed without interruption.
• The school provides an impressive range of activities that helps pupils to develop their talents and interests.
• Pupils are extremely well prepared for adulthood, with skills in household maintenance and a detailed understanding of fundamental British values.

Areas to improve:

• The school should ensure that staff implement the school's assessment strategies well to check on pupils' learning and use this information to inform teaching so that pupils achieve as well as they should.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.