Beaumont School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this school?

Pupils thrive at this highly inclusive school, which expects all its pupils to succeed. Pupils have exemplary attitudes to their learning and engage with the wealth of opportunities available.

They become exceptionally well-rounded individuals. Pupils' academic outcomes at the end of their courses are excellent. They are very well prepared for their next steps in their lives.

Pupils behave with maturity. They feel empowered to play a role in maintaining the school's high standards of behaviour. Pupils feel safe to challenge any behaviour of others that falls below expectations.

In lessons, pupils are resilient when faced with challenging learning.

Th...ere are countless opportunities for pupils to develop their leadership skills. Sixth-form students take pride in how they mentor and support younger pupils.

Elected pupil parliament members represent their peers and make meaningful change in the school. Pupils lead a wide range of clubs. Pupils organise wider school events, such as culture day.

This celebrates the diversity and heritage of the school community through the wearing of national dress and pupils experiencing international cuisine.

The school achieves its highly ambitious vision by helping pupils to 'enjoy and excel'. This ethos permeates school life.

Parents and carers, staff and pupils reflect this in their highly positive views of the school.

What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?

Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), study a strong, broad and ambitious curriculum across all year groups. The curriculum is exceptionally well thought through.

It identifies the key information that pupils need to know and remember. Teachers use this information to teach the curriculum in a coherent order.

Teachers have strong subject and teaching knowledge.

This helps them to present and scaffold new information to pupils with clarity. This gives pupils the confidence and understanding they need to move forward in their learning. For example, in science, sixth-form students confidently tackle quantum mechanics calculations because of knowing the small steps that they need to use.

They apply this learning to unfamiliar contexts. Teachers use a range of strategies to check what pupils know and to address any misconceptions effectively. Pupils' accurate use of subject-specific vocabulary contributes to the high-quality work that they consistently produce.

The school swiftly and accurately identifies the needs of pupils with SEND. Teachers use this information to provide these pupils with the help they need to forge ahead in their learning. The school provides pupils with the most complex needs with effective additional support, including by working with external agencies.

The school ensures that pupils with SEND achieve very well.

Reading underpins the curriculum in the school. Pupils who struggle to read get the support they need to help them to catch up quickly.

This aids their access to the curriculum. There is an established culture of reading in the school. Pupils enjoy reading and do so with skill and accuracy.

A significant proportion of students newly join the school in the sixth form. The welcoming and inclusive nature of the school means that these students quickly feel like valued members of the school. Students appreciate the approaches that the school adopts to help them become responsible and independent learners.

This prepares them well for their later learning, such as university courses and degree apprenticeships.

While attendance levels are high, leaders are not complacent. The school works closely with families of pupils who are persistently absent.

With support, many of these pupils are starting to attend school more frequently.

There is a rich and well-considered wider development offer. This helps pupils grow into responsible and active citizens.

The school's annual student-led community sport and music festival raises funds for charity. It also provides opportunities for home-grown pupil bands and musicians to perform for the local community. Pupils engage with the range of residential trips that are on offer.

These opportunities help them to apply their curriculum learning, develop their awareness of culture and enhance life skills such as resilience and independence. Pupils support the local community through litter picking and performing at local care homes. Pupils buddy with younger pupils in a local primary school.

The younger pupils give ideas and themes for a story which the Beaumont pupils then write for, and read to, them. This vast array of activities demonstrates the school's support for pupils' moral and character development. The school's comprehensive careers programme further helps to raise pupils' aspirations.

High-quality training ensures that staff understand and implement the school's vision. Staff are highly positive about how the school considers their workload and well-being.Trustees are unwavering in their determination to secure excellence in the school's work.

They have a strong understanding of the school, and as with all leaders in the school, they successfully strive to improve pupils' education further. Trustees provide effective challenge and support to the school.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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