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Students make outstanding progress in Years 7 to 11 and attain well-above-average standards in GCSE examinations. Students mature into thoughtful young adults with the confidence to face whatever challenges they meet in their futures. Provision for students' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is outstanding.
Students value their personal and social education lessons highly. Students feel safe and happy at school. The school's care and support for their personal development are outstanding.
New students in Years 7 and 12 settle in very quickly. Teachers have superb subject knowledge and often use this to make lesso...ns intellectually challenging and stimulating. Students work hard and conscientiously.
They are attentive, interested and learn well. The sixth form is good. The number of students moving on to prestigious universities has increased in the last few years.
The activity of completing an extended project, (worth the same points as an AS level) in the sixth form is popular. Students gain much from undertaking the research and writing required for this qualification. Students' behaviour is exemplary.
They are very keen to learn. They make the most of everything the school offers outside lessons. The curriculum includes outstanding enrichment activities which broaden students' horizons, give them useful skills for their future lives and encourage volunteering.
The restructured senior leadership team, supported by middle leaders, is now tackling any underachievement and less successful teaching with determination. It is well supported by an experienced governing body. It is not yet an outstanding school because : In several subjects, sixth-form students do not make enough progress to attain their full potential and to achieve the top AS- and A- level grades.
Senior and middle leaders did not deal with underachievement in the sixth form energetically enough in the past.
Information about this school
The school is a little larger than the average-sized secondary school. The school takes boys in the sixth form.
There are many more girls than boys in the sixth form. About 85% of students are White British, with small percentages of girls and boys in the sixth form from many different minority ethnic backgrounds. An average proportion of students speak English as an additional language, very few of whom are at an early stage of learning English.
A well-below-average proportion of students receive support through the pupil premium, which provides additional government funding for specific groups, including looked-after children and students known to be eligible for free school meals. The school has a tiny number of looked-after children. No students are eligible for the Year 7 catch-up funding.
The proportion of disabled students and those with special educational needs supported through school action is well below the national average. The proportion of students supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is also well below the national average. The most common needs relate to behavioural, emotional and social difficulties.
The school does not use any alternative, off-site education provision. The school meets the government's current floor standard, which sets the minimum expectations for students' attainment and progress. The headteacher is a National Leader of Education and has been chair of the East Kent Association of Headteachers for the past year.
The school was designated as a National Teaching School in March 2014 and awarded Artsmark Gold for the fourth time in 2013. Since September 2012, in a collaborative partnership, the headteacher has been executive head of the local Spires Academy a school for 11 to 16-year-old students. The school takes a lead role in the Canterbury Collaborative Partnership.
This is a teaching and learning collaboration involving one other secondary school, nine primary schools and one special school. The school was awarded Investors in Careers Gold for the third time in 2013. The school promotes STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) activities.
