Boston Endeavour Academy

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. The headteacher is clear about what the school needs to do to improve and works hard so that it does.

Governors visit regularly so they know what to do to help her and also to challenge her about the work of the school. Teaching is generally good so that pupils of all ages make good and sometimes outstanding progress from when they join the school. The school successfully uses different ways of helping pupils to communicate so that they can all join in their lessons.

Staff have the training they need to make sure everyone has the same chance, whatever their difficulties. Pupils enjoy school and show they feel safe there. They are mostly ...well behaved in lessons and through the day.

Staff work together effectively to manage any difficult behaviour, so that lessons run smoothly. The school goes out of its way to make sure there is a good relationship with parents. This means parents feel happy their children are well cared for and are having a good education.

They are right behind the work of the headteacher. The sixth form is good and provides a wide range of opportunities to prepare students for life beyond school. It is not yet an outstanding school because : A few difficulties with staff absence have meant the headteacher has not always had all the support she needed to improve the school as much as she knows it could.

Teaching assistants who take lessons are not always given all the support they need. Although teaching is usually good, very occasionally it can be a little slow and some more-able pupils sometimes have work that may be too easy. Staff do not have enough opportunity to share best practice either in school or through visiting other similar schools.

Information about this school

The John Fielding Community is a small special school for pupils with severe to profound multiple learning difficulties. It is part of the Boston Learning Network. An increasing number of pupils also have autistic-spectrum disorders and complex medical problems.

A small number of pupils with moderate learning difficulties have joined the school later in their school careers. All pupils have a statement of special educational needs. There are only very few in the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Some pupils take part in lessons at St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School and sixth formers attend Boston College one day a week. A higher-than-average proportion of pupils are known to be eligible for the pupil premium (extra funding for pupils known to be eligible for free school meals, looked after by the local authority or with a parent in the armed forces). The majority of pupils are from a White British Background and speak English as their first language.

However, there are a growing number of pupils who speak other languages. The local authority pays for an outreach teacher at the school to support pupils with special educational needs in mainstream primary and some secondary schools. The school has Sportsmark and Activemark Awards, the Basic Skills Agency Quality Mark and the International Schools Award.