Crosby High School Report
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The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You lead a welcoming school and you ensure that pupils are at the heart of everything the school does. The school has a ‘can do’ attitude and pupils also commit to your vision for success as they embrace the ‘I can…’ statements used in lessons. Pupils are polite, friendly and humorous and are very secure and happy in their school. Pupils have positive attitudes to learning and their conduct throughout the inspection was good. The school is a safe, pleasant and well-maintained environment. You have developed new spaces for learning and have been very adaptable in order to accommodate new pupils at the request of the local authority. You are responding effectively to the changing nature of the needs of pupils joining your school and you play an important role in the local authority’s offer for pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities. You are engaged with other local schools and collaborate effectively in order to support one another. Pupils say that they like coming to school and trust the adults in the school to care for them. They enjoy a wide range of subjects and say that their teachers challenge them to do their best. Pupils can talk about British values and other peoples’ beliefs which they have learned about in their lessons and in assemblies. They enjoy lots of other aspects of school life, such as singing in the choir, residential holidays and work experience opportunities. The school provides pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum which successfully captures their interests. You and other leaders are outward-looking. You seek opportunities to improve the pupils’ quality of education by drawing on expertise and through collaboration with others. Governors have supported you well in these initiatives and their commitment to pupils in the school extends beyond their time at school as governors endeavour to learn about pupils’ destinations in adult life. You place a high value on supporting pupils’ social and emotional development and have identified the key qualities that pupils need to develop social skills, resilience and independent thinking. As a result of this, you are preparing pupils well for the next stage of their education and for adult life. You consider the needs of individual pupils and offer alternative provision where appropriate. You then monitor this effectively. Parents are very positive about the school. They feel that their children are safe in the school and say that staff deal with any problems. Parents find communication with staff is easy and that there is ‘always someone to talk to’. They say that staff nurture pupils and help them develop independence. Parents appreciate the changes in the choice of subjects and value the ambitions that staff instil in their children. Parents report that staff prepare pupils ‘really well’ for the next stage of their education and adult life. You, other leaders and governors have an accurate understanding of the quality of education in the school. Processes for evaluating the quality of education are thorough and detailed and you incorporate the views of others to inform your understanding of the school. You and the assistant headteacher have an accurate view of the quality of teaching and have ensured that teaching continues to improve. Teachers plan work to raise pupils’ aspirations and work with them to ensure that they understand how to make their work better. Teachers typically provide sufficient challenge to enable pupils to make progress. However, in a small number of cases, particularly for less able pupils, teachers do not set work that is well matched to pupils’ learning needs. As a consequence, pupils are either too reliant on adults’ support or cannot successfully complete the tasks they have been set. The school has faced a series of financial pressures in recent years. It is a credit to school leaders that they have continued to improve standards in the school while staff numbers have been reduced. This has been achieved by working closely with governors and by securing the commitment of the whole staff team. You focus effectively on improving the quality of education that the pupils in the school receive and you have successfully addressed the areas for improvement from the previous inspection. You have made changes so that pupils are better informed about what they need to do to achieve their best. This is enabling pupils to be more involved with their learning. You have recently restructured your leadership team and middle leaders have some new areas of responsibility. They now monitor their areas of responsibility more effectively and so have a better understanding of the quality of education in the school and how to support colleagues in making improvements. However, at this point, there is a lack of clear systems to enable the sharing of information among the leadership team. Pupils typically make good progress in the school and achieve a broad range of accreditations and qualifications by the time they leave school. However, a number of pupils in key stage 3 and key stage 4 did not reach the standards that leaders expected of them in mathematics last year. You have promptly set to work to resolve this dip and have lost no time in identifying a range of interventions to help these pupils catch up. These changes are already in place and although it is too early to evaluate their impact, staff are supportive of this approach. Safeguarding is effective. Leaders have ensured that all safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose, maintaining the strong safeguarding culture of the school and adapting to the changing demands of caring for vulnerable young people. The school’s single central record is compliant and effective safer recruitment procedures are in place. The designated governor for safeguarding is actively involved in the school. Governors have a clear awareness of their duties in relation to safeguarding. Members of staff are well trained and know exactly what to do if they have a safeguarding concern. Pupils say that they feel safe in school and trust the adults that work with them. Pupils know how to stay safe and opportunities to teach pupils about keeping themselves safe are an integral part of the curriculum. Exclusions are reducing and those that occur are well managed and follow appropriate procedures. There are risk assessments for transport arrangements and appropriate actions are taken to mitigate identified risks. Leaders make sure that thorough checks are carried out on the quality of safety and education at any alternative provision settings. Inspection findings The inspection focused on a number of key lines of enquiry. The first of these explored pupils’ understanding of what they had to do to achieve their best, and considered whether they were being challenged enough to achieve as well as they could. In most cases, pupils have high aims and they are provided with a good level of challenge. As a result, these pupils make good progress and are well prepared for the next stages of their education, employment or training. However, in a small number of cases, learning activities are not well matched to pupils’ ability. This is particularly the case for less able pupils, who are sometimes over-reliant on adult help to complete tasks successfully. This line of enquiry also considered how effectively teachers help pupils to understand what they need to do to achieve good outcomes. There is a clear system followed in school which involves teachers, support staff and pupils. This ensures that everyone is clear about what pupils are trying to achieve.
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