The Trinity Catholic School A Voluntary Academy

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 3 December 2024

This is a caring school where everyone feels included. Pupils enjoy coming to school. They aspire to live up to the school's values that are linked to faith, love and respect. They enjoy positive relationships with adults. There is a strong pastoral support system in place that gives pupils extra help if they need it. Pupils are polite and consistently kind and respectful towards each other. They show high levels of tolerance and understanding of each other's differences. Pupils are safe and feel safe here. The school has high expectations for how well pupils should behave and achieve. Pupils' behaviour is calm and orderly, in classrooms and during social times. They take pride in their school. Pupils, including disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), achieve well in their external examinations. Students in the sixth form also achieve highly. This sets pupils up well for their next stage of life. The positive culture that has been created in school is further reinforced by the variety of enrichment and extra-curricular activities available to the pupils. These provide pupils with both academic and cultural opportunities to grow and develop as young adults.

What the school should improve

• The school is still in the process of refining the curriculum and identifying the essential knowledge that pupils should learn. This makes it difficult for staff to deliver some areas of the curriculum as effectively as they could, where this work is incomplete. The school should ensure that there is clarity around what should be taught in each subject so that pupils gain the deep knowledge of which they are capable, across the curriculum.
• On some occasions, teachers do not check routinely what pupils have learned and remembered. As a result, some gaps in pupils' knowledge are not identified quickly enough. Pupils are, sometimes, missing important knowledge that they need for future learning. The school should ensure that learning is adapted routinely to resolve gaps in learning so that pupils' knowledge and understanding is secure before they move on.

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