The board of directors and the executive principal of the Canterbury Multi-Academy Trust oversee the Canterbury High School and the Canterbury Primary School on the same site. The latter is inspected separately. The board also oversees the area-wide alternative curriculum provision and youth commission. An on-site pre-school and nursery facility is indirectly linked with the multi-academy trust but is inspected separately. The executive principal, who retires from his full-time position in December 2017, has gradually been handing over his role during the last two years to ensure a smooth Inspection report: The Canterbury Academy, 11–12 October 2017 Page 10 of 14 transfer of leadership. At the same time, other leaders have been moving up into their new roles. The Canterbury High School uses three off-site facilities: – Phoenix House (Herne Bay), where a very small number of pupils at risk of permanent exclusion study life skills programmes and are supported to return to mainstream school. – Riverside Youth Centre, for pupils in Years 9 to 11 whose learning needs, in addition to English and mathematics, are best suited by taking practical, workrelated subjects. – The Chaucer site, which temporarily houses some of the studio space for sixthform students in the performing arts college, and physical education lessons for Phoenix House pupils. The school’s off-site alternative provision is under the auspices of the Canterbury MultiAcademy Trust. However, the majority of pupils attending Phoenix House are enrolled at other schools. They access this alternative curriculum provision as the Canterbury Multi-Academy Trust provides it for all schools in the area on behalf of the local authority. The school also shares some of its on-site facilities with pupils in a local special school. Several on-site, separate buildings have industry-standard facilities and equipment, used, for example, by performing arts, sports, construction, and hair and beauty courses. The Enterprise and Employability College houses several of these facilities, as does a new, as yet unnamed, building. There are extensive outdoor facilities for sports, including a multi-million pound, purpose-built sports centre with an integrated fitness suite and a tennis centre. The academy is open for pupils and students from 8am to 6pm and many of its facilities, including the Riverside Youth Centre, are shared with the community, largely, but not exclusively, outside of school hours. The school’s partnership with the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys contributes to ‘A grammar school band for boys and girls’. The partnership, in its sixth year, is wellembedded with groups of high-attaining pupils from both schools learning together in some subjects. The senior vice-principal of Langton continues to work full-time at Canterbury Academy. The school has continued to grow in the last two years and is now much larger than the average-sized secondary school. The sixth form, one of the largest in Kent, increased to over 700 in 2016, but is just under 600 this year. The proportion of pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities is average overall, and the proportion of pupils who have an education, health and care plan is well above average. This is due to the school having a specialist-resource-based provision for up to 30 pupils needing support for speech, language and communication needs. They are integrated into mainstream lessons for much of the time. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is well above that seen nationally. Each year, around 40 pupils in Year 7 are eligible for catch-up funding, which is for pupils who did not attain the expected standards (scaled score below 100) in English and/or mathematics at the end of primary school.