Outwood Academy Brumby

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 14 May 2024

Outwood Academy Brumby is a school that puts the best interests of pupils at the heart of everything it does. The school has an unswerving commitment to providing pupils with a high-quality education, irrespective of their background or ability. Staff strive to remove the many barriers to learning that pupils face. This includes a strong focus on improving pupils' rates of attendance. Pupils are happy at school. They learn to take responsibility for their own behaviour. They understand the impact of their actions on others. Most pupils get along well. They are polite and friendly. The school has high expectations of pupils' conduct. This ensures that pupils can learn successfully. Typically, pupils show positive attitudes to learning. Pupils know that the school wants them to have the best possible start in life. An abundance of extra-curricular activities, such as sports and other developmental opportunities, are carefully woven into the school day. This ensures that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), and those who are disadvantaged, can access them equally well. The school places equal weight on pupils' academic achievement. An increasing number of pupils benefit from an effective curriculum that fosters their aspirations and enables them to succeed.

What the school should improve

• Some pupils do not attend school as regularly as they should. These pupils miss important learning and all that the school has to offer. The school should ensure that it continues to support these pupils and their families to further improve their rates of attendance over time.
• Some older pupils have gaps in their reading knowledge. This hinders how well these pupils access the wider curriculum. The school should ensure that staff are suitably equipped to identify and remedy the gaps in these pupils' reading knowledge quickly and effectively.
• Some pupils, including some who are disadvantaged, have gaps in their knowledge because of absence from school. On occasion, some staff do not support pupils to address these gaps in knowledge swiftly enough. This prevents these pupils from building a rich body of subject knowledge across the curriculum. The school should ensure that staff implement the agreed approaches to addressing gaps in pupils' knowledge consistently well.

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