Clee Hill Community Academy

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 4 October 2023

Pupils love attending this busy, caring and welcoming school. They arrive happily and always do their best. The school strives to give pupils a range of meaningful experiences such as becoming trained anti-bullying ambassadors and visiting places of worship. This is a 'small' school that provides 'big' opportunities. The school has high expectations for all pupils, including those who have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). As a result, pupils achieve well. They become fluent, enthusiastic readers and competent mathematicians. They revel in the broad, exciting curriculum on offer and talk with confidence about their learning. Staff have high expectations of how pupils should behave. Pupils always display positive attitudes and behaviour, and disruption in lessons is very rare. The school culture is open and inclusive. Pupils feel safe, involved and listened to. They are caring and thoughtful, always being prepared to help one another in lessons and in the playground. On the rare occasions when behaviour falls short of expectations, pupils know that adults will help put things right. They say that adults are good at 'talking it through to help us understand how to behave'.

What the school should improve

• The school has not implemented curriculum improvements effectively in a small number of subjects. This means that pupils do not retain as much knowledge in these subjects as they could. The school should ensure the implementation of these subjects becomes as effective as those which are strengths of the school.

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