Ofsted

We are delighted to share the ofsted report from our inspection in January 2024 in which we were graded ‘Good’. This was an ungraded inspection, so our grade remains the same however the inspector has noted that there was evidence to suggest we may have been graded outstanding if the inspection had of been graded.

Our 2024 Ofsted report can be found here.

Our 2018 Ofsted report can be found here.

Information regarding Ofsted may be found here.

Challenge Partners

Challenge Partners is a practitioner-led national network of schools that improves school performance through peer-to-peer challenge and knowledge sharing. Each school in Challenge Partners receives an annual Quality Assurance (QA) Review. The QA Review is a peer review involving senior leaders from other schools in the partnership. The review has a whole-school remit and focuses on teaching and learning, which enables practitioners to have deep conversations about the quality of learning in the school being reviewed.

Outcomes from the review are not set by the review team and fed back to the school. Instead, all outcomes are agreed between the school and the review team as part of an on-going professional dialogue that seeks to unpick and articulate effective teaching practice and school improvement strategies demonstrated by the school. Review reports are best viewed as a summary of conversations between peers during three days spent in the school.

By nature of being a collaborative peer review, the QA Review is different from other external inspections such as Ofsted and Local Authority reports. Additionally, due to the review’s focus on teaching and learning, the review does not consider areas such as safeguarding or governance and so its outcomes cannot be directly comparable to an Ofsted inspection.