Younger pupils developed a love of reading, Ofsted noted. But senior boys did not read a wide range of books and their education generally narrowed. As a result, they “do not gain the qualifications they need to prepare them for further study and employment”.
Although the school taught respect for others in a general way, it did not meet independent school standards because it did not teach about all the protected characteristics listed in equality law, even in the GCSE citizenship course, where these were part of the curriculum.
According to the school’s leadership, pupils learned about “different sorts of families. Leaders described single parent families and families headed by a mother and a grandmother as examples.”
But Ofsted observed that these examples were “not sufficient to demonstrate that pupils know about all the protected characteristics”.
The behaviour, attitude and personal development of pupils was good, as was the school’s early years provision.
