Windsor Park CE Middle School

Overview

Windsor Park CE Middle School is described as a “happy and friendly place in which to learn” where pupils “typically achieve well.” The report highlights that the school is “emerging from a period of turbulence in leadership” and is now in a position to “improve consistently” following effective intervention by the multi-academy trust.

Strengths

• Pupils “behave very well” and show “positive attitudes to their learning,” with bullying incidents being “rare.”
• Leaders have successfully improved attendance and punctuality, with absence rates significantly below the national average.
• Writing standards have seen a “swift and positive impact” due to a whole-school focus on structure, content, and legible handwriting.
• The school provides “excellent pastoral care,” ensuring pupils “feel safe and confident” and that small problems do not escalate.
• Disadvantaged pupils “typically keep up with their peers” and access an “ambitious planned curriculum.”

Areas to improve

• Leaders should continue to develop the curriculum in a “very small number of foundation subjects” where it is currently “weaker.”
• Leaders should improve the consistency of support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, particularly for those with “less complex” needs.
• “Pupil passports” for SEND pupils sometimes “lack the precision” needed to help teachers adapt teaching effectively.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an “open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility” and concerns are actively identified and managed.