Cambridge House Grammar School

Overview

Cambridge House Grammar School is described as a co-educational institution where the vision of ‘Together we create futures’ is ‘shared and understood well’. The report highlights a ‘calm and respectful environment’ with strong community links and effective support for pupils’ well-being. However, it identifies significant variation in teaching quality and notes that pupil attainment in public examinations is below the school’s own targets and grammar school averages.

Strengths

• Pupils are ‘kind, courteous and friendly’, benefiting from ‘respectful and positive relationships’ with staff.
• The school offers a ‘high-quality careers education’ programme, with enterprise education cited as a ‘particular strength’.
• There is a ‘broad extra-curricular programme’ valued by parents, including successful participation in arts, sports, and charitable activities.
• Staff provide effective support for pupils with special educational needs through ‘insightful planning’ and ‘effective deployment of classroom assistance’.
• Parents value the ‘quality and regularity of communication’ between school and home.

Areas to improve

• The school must ‘improve the quality and consistency of the planning, teaching and assessment for successful learning’, addressing issues such as over-direction by teachers and variable marking.
• The school needs to ‘improve the pupils’ literacy skills and the overall outcomes they attain in public examinations at KS 4 and post-16’, including raising departmental targets and closing attainment gaps.

Safeguarding

The report states that ‘arrangements for child and adult protection align to the current statutory guidance’, though it requires the school to update its child and adult protection policy.