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BRADFIELD OFSTED REPORT – MAY 2004
SUMMARY OF THE REPORT - OVERALL EVALUATION
This is a very effective school which provides a very good quality of education. Good teaching makes an important contribution to students’ very good standards of achievement and to well above average GCSE results. Students have very good attitudes to school. The school gives very good value for money.
The school’s main strengths and weaknesses are:
• The School is governed very well, and is outstandingly well led by the Headteacher.
• GCSE results in 2003 were well above average, and were very high in Science, Modern Foreign Languages, Physical Education and Music.
• Students benefit from excellent provision in music and very good provision in English, mathematics, science, modern foreign languages and art and design, but citizenship is not sufficiently well co-ordinated.
• Students have very good equality of access to a broad curriculum that has very many opportunities for enrichment, especially in the arts, and is excellently planned for gifted and talented students.
• Excellent arrangements for helping students settle in when they join the school are followed by very good support and guidance, enhanced by excellent links with other schools and very good links with the community.
• Specialist accommodation for Science, Design and Technology and Drama is unsatisfactory.
Improvement since the last inspection has been good. GCSE results have risen significantly. More resources for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enable a substantial proportion of older students to take an examination course.
Rigorous target setting, in English, Mathematics and Science particularly, is backed by very good use of information from tests and examinations.
Higher achievement is the chief aim of strategic planning.
Improvements to classroom accommodation have not included much needed improvements for Science, Drama, and Design and Technology. Teaching time meets recommendations.
Governors’ Comments
Whilst we appreciate that the last OFSTED inspection was 3 years ago now we have in that time tried to maintain and develop our strengths whilst at the same time working hard to improve on our weaknesses. We hope that the progress that we have made as a school is reflected in our academic and pastoral achievements and will be recognised by OFSTED when they next visit us.