Teaching, Learning and Assessment
The school is confident in the quality of education, with staff carefully considering the important subject knowledge that pupils need to know and understand. Teachers are trained in a consistent and effective approach to deliver curriculum content. Pupils benefit from a highly effective curriculum that is well taught. Teachers provide clear explanations that help pupils to comprehend new learning. Pupils are able to recall what they have been taught before. Pupils who attend school regularly learn and achieve well. Assessment and feedback are consistent within teams, and provides students routinely with the actionable next-steps which enhance their progress. The school has tight processes to identifying pupils with SEND. Support for SEND students in Nest, Oasis and the Cornerstone provision are supportive environments with tailored curriculum plans that focus on teaching and reinforcing important principles, beliefs and skills alongside academic subjects. The work that the school does to support all pupils with SEND and EAL is testament to their commitment to inclusive education. Staff make sensitive adaptations that enable these pupils to progress through the curriculum. Staff promptly identify pupils who are at the early stages of learning to read. These pupils receive personalised support from trained staff. As a result, they quickly learn to read with greater confidence.