Windsor Park CE Middle School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. All groups of students achieve well.

Standards have risen and rates of progress increased rapidly across the school since the previous inspection. Students' behaviour is outstanding. They are very keen to learn and are excited by their lessons and the extra activities provided for them.

They are polite and thoughtful and are very proud of their school. They are extremely safe in school and know how to keep themselves safe. The quality of teaching is good and improving strongly, as a result of leaders' high expectations and rigorous monitoring.

Teachers set tasks that are fun and interesting and relationships are warm and support...ive. The quality of marking of students' work is a strength of the school. Students respond to the advice they are given on how to improve, by undertaking a new challenge to show they understand.

This leads to rapid progress. The headteacher, very well supported by senior leaders and by the governing body, has ensured that all areas of the school's work have shown rapid improvement since his appointment. Staff morale is high and all are keen to do even better.

The progress of every student is closely tracked and teachers are held to account for any that fall behind. They respond effectively with extra help so that students catch up quickly. Students' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is outstanding as a result of the curriculum that they follow and the caring atmosphere that the school provides.

It promotes respect, tolerance and British values very well. The school's procedures to accelerate progress in reading are outstanding. Mixed-age reading sessions enable older students to support younger ones and make reading fun.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : A minority of teachers do not set tasks that fully stretch their students to ensure that they all make the maximum progress. Although they catch up in Key Stage 3, pupils are not making such good progress in mathematics in Key Stage 2 as they do in reading and writing. The gap between the achievement of disadvantaged students and others in the school is wider in mathematics.

Information about this school

The school is smaller than the average-sized secondary school. The proportion of disabled students and those who have special educational needs is above average. The large majority of students are from White British backgrounds.

Very few students speak English as an additional language. The proportion of students supported through the pupil premium, which provides additional funding for students in local authority care and those known to be eligible for free school meals, is below average. Four students attend part-time off-site alternative provision at ARC which is a Pupil Referral Unit.

(PRU) The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for students' attainment and progress. The head teacher took up his post in January 2014. Following the previous inspection, the local authority commissioned the support of a Local Leader of Education, (LLE) from Cheadle Primary School.

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