Beamont Collegiate Academy

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 5 July 2022

Pupils at Beamont enjoy coming to school. They are happy and friendly. Pupils like the enrichment activities that leaders provide. These opportunities are wide-ranging and include choir, chess, and yoga. Pupils particularly enjoy the combined cadet force. Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), rise to leaders' high expectations. Pupils understand and follow the school's learning and behaviour values. This helps to ensure that classrooms are calm and purposeful. Pupils achieve well in a broad range of subjects. Pupils behave well in lessons. Pupils' breaktimes are relaxed and friendly. They feel safe. Pupils have been taught about different types of bullying and understand effective ways to report it. Staff deal with any bullying incidents effectively. Pupils enjoy visiting the science, technology, engineering and mathematics centre on the school site. Many pupils participate in the programming activities in the coding club. They enjoyed working with other pupils across the Challenge Academy Trust in a competition to design a community centre in the Lake District.

What the school should improve

• The checks on pupils' earlier learning are not used effectively by some teachers to identify gaps in pupils' knowledge. This hinders teachers' ability to address pupils' missed or forgotten learning. Leaders should support teachers to use appropriate assessment strategies consistently well.

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