Canary Wharf College Crossharbour

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Leaders, governors and staff work successfully together to provide a good-quality education.

The school is improving. While the school has grown in size and changed locations each year, leaders and governors have made sure that teaching, learning and assessment, and pupils' outcomes, are good. Leaders have made sure that the curriculum helps pupils to deepen their knowledge and to develop important skills as they progress through the school.

Leaders prioritise teachers' professional development and provide regular support to improve teaching quality further. Even so, there are occasions when teachers do not ensure that pupils have grasped... new learning securely before moving on. Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) make particularly strong progress in sessions tailored to their needs.

Sometimes, teaching in mainstream classes does not support pupils with SEND as routinely well. The curriculum is enriched by a variety of activities and outings. Pupils are enthusiastic to take on responsibility as library monitors and 'scholar leaders'.

Pupils in Year 9 develop valuable employability skills for their adult lives, for example through volunteering in the local community. Pupils are ambitious for their futures and keen to learn. They typically conduct themselves sensibly and respond readily to reminders from staff about the behaviour that is expected.

Pupils know how to keep themselves safe, including when using information and communications technology. Pupils' knowledge of British values and their spiritual, social, moral and cultural development are well promoted; provision includes topical assemblies and regular and effective personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education sessions.

Information about this school

The school, part of the Canary Wharf College multi-academy trust (MAT), opened in September 2016 with its first intake of pupils in Year 7.

There are two classes in Years 8 and 9, and three classes in Year 7. There are no pupils in key stage 4 and no students in 16 to 19 provision. The school will continue to grow each year until there are pupils in Years 7 to 11 and students in the 16 to 19 provision.

The school has occupied three different sites since opening in September 2016. It is currently based in an interim location. The school makes use of local sporting facilities and parkland at breaktime.

The proportion of pupils with SEND is above the national average. The previously small proportion of disadvantaged pupils has increased as the school has grown and is now above average. The school has no national assessment results because there are no pupils so far in Year 11.

The school makes use of one alternative provider, London East Alternative Provision. The governance structure includes trust members and a single governing board for the three schools within the MAT, as well as local college councils for each school within the MAT. The school's local college council has an advisory role.