Wetherby Pembridge

Overview: Wetherby Pembridge is a new school with pupils in Years 7 to 9, providing a high-quality education with a broad and rich curriculum. The school has established a strong foundation, with leaders demonstrating a clear vision and ambitious plans for the future.

Strengths:

• Pupils achieve highly across subjects, with a strong focus on academic, performing arts, and games.
• Teachers demonstrate highly effective pedagogical skills, setting learning activities well matched to the subject and pupils' learning.
• The school prioritises personal development and wellbeing, with a well-planned and highly effective programme for personal, social, health, and economic education.
• Pupils are well prepared for life in modern Britain, learning about democracy, the rule of law, and individual liberty from Year 7 onwards.
• The school promotes positive behaviour through restorative approaches and the use of calm spaces.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should refine how they check the progress of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities to make sure all those pupils benefit fully from the support and adaptations made for them.
• Leaders should continue their work to improve attendance so that it exceeds the national average overall.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and establishing an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon, and managed.