Woodside Academy

Overview: Woodside Academy is a good school where pupils and adults value being part of a happy and kind community. The school has a strong sense of equality and acceptance of others, and pupils understand how to keep themselves safe from harm. The school has revised the curriculum in English and mathematics, and this is already having a positive impact on pupils' achievement.

Strengths:

• Pupils and adults value being part of a happy and kind community.
• Warm relationships between staff and pupils reflect the school's values of respect, high expectations, and resilience.
• Pupils are courteous to each other and to those visiting their school.
• Phonics is taught effectively from early years, and the love of reading is evident across the school.
• Pupils enjoy mathematics, and the school has recently refined its approach, which is already having a positive impact.

Areas to improve:

• Some tasks given to pupils in lessons do not match the intended learning, and assessments do not routinely check that this knowledge is being secured over time.
• Historically, provision for some pupils with SEND has not been strong, and recent improvements should continue so that the systems and approaches that are now in place become firmly embedded.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.