School Report

Students School Life

The students seemed happy and content with the school rules and dress properly. The uniform is a consists of a blazer, black trousers for boys or a kilt for the girls, white shirt, a tie, black school shoes for both boys and girls and an optional jumper. It looks smart when put together and it's good to see that the school makes sure that the pupils dress properly if they don't they get a detention which lasts from 10-15minutes. The students are arranged and put into classes according to their intellectual ability. I spoke to a few pupils and asked them what the like about their school. The first pupil I spoke to was a year 10 pupil and in the third to top set this is what he had to say “I like school because of have a lot of friends, the teacher are helpful and understands the pupils really well”.

I went around the school and found another pupil this time and year 8 girl she was with a couple of friends talking but still had the time to answer my question she said “I like the school because it's new which means that all the equipment isn't that old and when I first came into year 7 the teachers and older pupil were really helpful and point me in the right direction if I got lost going to class”. The asked four more pupils and they shared similar opinions to the two above. I then set out asking pupils if there was anything they didn't like about the school. I asked a year 11 boy what they didn't like about the school and this what he said “ I don't like how early we have to get to school but I know why we get in early it's so that we get to go home earlier other than that I think the school is great.

The students are happy with the school which I think is always a sign that the school is doing something right which is good.

 Achieved Grade-A*.

Teaching and Learning

The academy's staff are making the level of teaching higher yet simple for all the pupils to understand. The pupils are listening and interact with the teachers well and get on with their tasks without much assistance. Overall I found the teaching and learning is excellent and at top standard. Positive relationships between students, teachers and other adults are notable and contribute to the students' enjoyment of learning. The staff are dedicated to ensuring that students' personal development and self esteem are raised effectively in order to remove barriers to that may be stopping pupils to excel. In lessons the teachers show their knowledge of students' and their current levels of attainment and t match the work to their individual needs. The pupils with learning difficulties have a learning support staff who help them in the class if they don't understand the topic the teacher is teaching. The teachers mark the pupils work and include comments on how they could improve their work to get higher marks which is good because it seemed to help the students know where to improve.

Achieved Grade-A.

Curriculum

The curriculum is exceeds the needs of different groups of students and makes a huge contribution to their enjoyment, personal development and achievement. The Key Stage 3 curriculum meets requirements and concentrates on improving students' literacy skills, especially in reading and writing which are already satisfactory. There are after school clubs which focus on raising knowledge, confidence and skills of who have learning needs. At Key Stage 4, different curriculum pathways provide a good balance of academic and vocational courses. Extra-curricular activities are rich varied and popular with students throughout the academy they range from football to fitness clubs to table tennis. The school runs a programme named Aim Higher it's purpose is to make and show students why they should embark upon higher education which so far has proved successful.

Achieved Grade A*

What can be done to improve

I found the school outstanding finding anything they can improve was very hard to find. After careful examination I found the following things could get improved on:

• Raise standards so that all pupils are have a suitable challenge too match their knowledge.
• Encourage more students to be involved in extra-curricular activities. Such as after school football and such.
• Make sure all students get involved in the activities going on in class I found that some of the pupils were deliberately moving themselves away from the activities.
• Tighten the punishment you get when you are late, at the moment all you get when you are late is 15 minutes detention which I personally don’t think is tough enough to make the pupils come to school earlier. I would recommend at least giving these pupils 30 minutes detention and if not this make people pay the time they were late back.