Woodfield Academy

Overview

Woodfield Academy is a larger-than-average-size middle school that has high ambitions for every pupil. While pupils enjoy learning and attend school regularly, the school requires improvement in its quality of education and behaviour and attitudes.

Strengths

• The school drives its ambitions for all pupils through a broad curriculum.
• The school provides many opportunities for pupils to develop their personal qualities, such as positive mental health and well-being.
• The school provides pupils with effective advice about their next stages of education and possible career paths.
• The school has clearly laid out processes to provide support for pupils with SEND.
• The school provides pupils with effective advice about their next stages of education and possible career paths.

Areas to improve

• Not all staff consistently implement the new approaches to teaching the intended curriculum in lessons, which has not fully had the desired impact on sustainably improving pupils’ achievements across the curriculum.
• Some staff do not use checks on what pupils can do and have learned with enough rigour, which slows the learning of pupils.
• Some staff do not apply the school’s behaviour policy consistently well, which results in low-level disruptions to lessons.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.