Flegg High Ormiston Academy

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 11 February 2025

Pupils feel safe at school and are generally happy. They know who the safeguarding team are and trust adults to follow up any worries. Pupils appreciate things like counselling and the holiday helpline phone number, which supports mental health and well-being. The school and trust make regular checks to make sure the safety and well-being needs of pupils are met. Behaviour has improved significantly since the previous inspection. Pupils now behave well. They are generally polite and want to learn. Where pupils do make a wrong choice, this is dealt with calmly through reflection. This enables pupils to understand the issue and rectify it. Pupils are attending increasingly well. This is because the school diligently follows up absences and promotes good attendance. There are increasingly high expectations for pupils' achievements. The trust has taken decisive action to improve how well these are realised. Although the school's actions are bearing fruit, the quality of education pupils receive is not of a consistently high enough standard. Pupils appreciate the wide range of activities, trips and clubs that are open to all. They particularly value that the leadership is involving their voice so extensively in the changes being made to the school.

What the school should improve

• Sometimes teachers do not use assessment well enough. As a result, misconceptions are not always identified thoroughly, or where work is not of high enough standard, this is not always addressed as well as it should be. The school should ensure that teachers use assessment diligently to identify misconceptions and pick up and address any work that is not of a high enough standard.
• Sometimes the pedagogical choices teachers make do not promote the opportunities pupils need to discuss the subject matter being taught. This means that some pupils do not always deepen their understanding or expand their thinking well enough. The school needs to ensure that teachers make pedagogical choices that engage pupils with discussion and give them the opportunities they need to deepen and expand their thinking.
• Staff do not always cater precisely enough for the needs of pupils with SEND. This means that although pupils with SEND are supported to access the curriculum, they would achieve more consistently well if staff were more precise in the adaptations they made for pupils' needs. The school should ensure that staff regularly review and are precise in how they cater for the needs of pupils with SEND so that they are supported to achieve as well as possible.

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