Inspection Reports

CLAREMONT JUDGED TO BE ‘OUTSTANDING’ IN ALL CATEGORIES BY OFSTED THIRD SUCCESSIVE TIME

Claremont School was inspected by Ofsted in March 2019 and received an ‘Outstanding’ report.  A welfare report was also produced in November 2017 and was rated as ‘Outstanding’.

The main findings are summarised below:

• Inspirational leadership and governance ensure that the school continues t grow, develop and flourish. This happy and successful school has gone from strength to strength since the previous inspection.
• Leaders ensure that pupils learn well, feel secure and have fun within the school’s safe, hard-working and friendly environment.
• Consistently strong teaching means that pupils of all ages and at each stage of education achieve exceptionally well throughout the school
•  The school’s well-planned curriculum enthuses pupils about learning and prepares them exceptionally well for the next stage of their education.
• Experienced staff, warm relationships and excellent teaching in early years enable children to settle quickly into school life.
• Pupils throughout the school feel very safe, secure and valued.
• The school’s broad and varied curriculum provides plenty of interest and challenge for pupils in all year groups.
• High standards of behaviour, good manners and respectful relationships throughout the school make a strong contribution to pupils’ learning.
• The school gives the development of pupils’ personal and social skills a high priority. As a result, pupils become mature, articulate and thoughtful learners.
• Extremely effective teaching in the sixth form ensures that standards of achievement at the end of Year 13 are high.
• Leaders ensure that all the independent school standards are fully in place.
• Leaders have recently updated the English curriculum to strengthen the use of vocabulary in pupils’ writing even more. However, it is too soon for these developments to have been established fully throughout the school.