school-inspection-report

Castle House School 13
5. CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS
Overall Conclusions
5.1 Castle House is a lively, thriving and caring school. It meets its aims and aspirations in many
regards. It prepares its pupils well for the next stage in their lives and their future well being.
Their achievements are often good relative to their abilities. Pupils acquire well-rounded
knowledge, understanding and skills in many subjects and develop confidence and maturity
in their personal lives. The school provides a broad, varied and interesting educational
experience. Pupils enjoy a very caring and happy family ethos. They enjoy coming to
school and are proud of it. The provision for spiritual, moral, social and cultural
development is very strong. Parents are pleased with the provision for their children and the
school’s links with them are outstanding. The overall quality of leadership and management
is good, as is the quality of teaching. The provision for pupils who are highly able, gifted or
talented is satisfactory but is not yet formalised. The systems for enabling boys and girls to
have positions of responsibility and a good understanding of democratic principles are not
clearly defined. The school has identified the need for a school council to facilitate the
pupils’ voice being heard. Senior managers are aware of the strengths of the school and the
areas for development.
5.2 The headmaster, senior managers and staff have improved standards and broadened the
learning experience since the last ISI inspection. The school has made good improvements
as a result of the restructuring of the curriculum, management and staff. It has identified the
need to improve its provision of training and resources for ICT further. The last Ofsted
Nursery report indicated that there were no significant shortcomings.
5.3 The school meets all the regulatory requirements.
Next Steps
5.4 In order to improve its provision further the school should:
1. further refine the provision for pupils who are highly able, gifted or talented across the
curriculum;
2. ensure that boys and girls experience more positions of responsibility and gain a
heightened awareness of democratic principles.
5.5 No action is required in respect of regulatory requirements.