Viewforth High School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Viewforth High School in December 2022, evaluating the school’s work against quality indicators. The report describes the school’s performance in ‘Learning, teaching and assessment’ and ‘Raising attainment and achievement’ as ‘satisfactory’. Inspectors expressed confidence that the school has the capacity to continue to improve and will make no further visits in connection with this inspection.

Strengths

• The headteacher provides ‘effective leadership in creating a supportive climate for learning’, fostering strong relationships that help young people maintain a ‘positive attitude towards their learning’.
• Young people develop a ‘broad range of valuable skills for life’ and access opportunities to achieve ‘skills-based qualifications’.
• Staff in the additional support department use their knowledge of pupils’ strengths and needs to provide ‘effective learning experiences’, leading to high engagement and ‘good progress’.

Areas to improve

• Teachers should plan learning tasks that are ‘set at the right level of challenge’ and ensure activities are ‘engaging, motivating and relevant for all young people’.
• Staff should work to ‘improve the attainment of young people’ in both the broad general education and senior phase, which involves improving ‘regular attendance’.
• Additional support staff should further develop the use of ‘individual targets in learning’ to better plan learning and monitor progress.

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific statements regarding safeguarding arrangements or outcomes.