Queen's Park High School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 4 February 2025

Pupils, and students in the sixth form, enjoy the calm and considerate culture at Queen's Park High School. They appreciate the positive relationships that they have with staff. This helps them to feel safe. Staff have high expectations for what pupils should achieve. In the main, pupils are supported well to realise these expectations. Pupils typically achieve well. Pupils usually treat each other with kindness and respect. Through their conduct, they demonstrate sensible attitudes and age-appropriate maturity. Occasionally, the experiences of some pupils are interrupted by the poorer behaviour of a small number of pupils. Staff manage such incidents with fairness and consistency. Pupils appreciate what staff do to get to know them. This helps them to feel included in the wider life of the school. For example, many sixth form students participate in the National Citizenship Scheme and the schools 'Community Spirit Programme'. This helps them to develop their awareness of leadership and citizenship. Many younger pupils appreciate the opportunities that they get to broaden their interests or to make a positive contribution to their locality, through clubs, competitions or the varied opportunities to raise money for charities.

What the school should improve

• Sometimes, teachers do not make effective enough use of their checks on pupils' learning to identify what knowledge pupils have gained. As a result, some teachers are not fully informed about what pupils are ready to learn next. The school should ensure that teachers check what knowledge pupils have learned and identify and address gaps in pupils' knowledge.
• At times, teachers do not select learning activities that are well matched to pupils starting points. This means that some pupils are not sufficiently challenged by the work that they are given. The school should ensure that teachers select and use activities in lessons that are appropriately ambitious for pupils.
• A minority of pupils, including some of those who disadvantaged, are persistently absent from school. These pupils miss out on the education that they need to progress through the curriculum as well as they should. The school should refine and enhance its arrangements to support and challenge those pupils who are persistently absent from school.

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