Loreto College

Overview

Loreto College is described as a school that “lives out well the Loreto vision” through high academic expectations and spiritual growth. The inspection highlights a “thriving community of learning” where pupils are “well motivated” and staff welfare is prioritised, with practice in embedding vision and curriculum planning identified as strengths for dissemination.

Strengths

• The curriculum is a “strength,” featuring a “well-planned preventative curriculum” that addresses contemporary issues “highly effectively.”
• Pupils “thrive” through participation in challenging lessons and a wide range of enrichment and leadership opportunities.
• The school “embeds and celebrates a wide range of pupil successes extremely well” through various media and events.
• Staff professional learning is “prioritised, well informed and responsive to need,” with high levels of staff satisfaction reported.
• The Pastoral Centre provides effective support, described by pupils as “special, unique and a place for everyone when they need it.”

Areas to improve

• Continue building the leadership skills and capacity of middle management.
• Ensure the outworking of effective planning for differentiation occurs as needed across all lessons.
• Consult more fully with pupils to evaluate the effectiveness of the preventative curriculum and Relationships and Sexuality Education programme.

Safeguarding

The report states that “arrangements for child protection align to the current statutory guidance” and that pupils feel “safe and well cared for.”