They reported that what they called "a significant minority" of teachers who completed confidential questionnaires expressed concern about "inconsistencies in dealing with indiscipline" and the "few areas of concern" emerging from questionnaires and discussions had been reported to the principal and a governors' representative.

With regard to lessons, they said, a small number had "significant weaknesses", less effective lessons characterised by the over-emphasis on whole-class activities, which lacked pace and challenge and did not take account of the range of abilities within the class; limited opportunities for the pupils to be actively engaged in their learning and the learning intentions and success criteria not being shared fully with pupils.

Regarding Pastoral Care and Child Protection inspectors identified a need to continue to monitor and evaluate further the quality of provision within the Personal Development programme to ensure consistency in the interests of all pupils.

Areas for improvement in Mathematics, they said, included effective questioning that would promote mathematical thinking and engage the pupils in active learning and a wider range of teaching and learning strategies, promoting greater progression in the learning and supported by more effective schemes of work.

For the purpose of showing improvement within the science specialism more clearly, they said, the school needed to review some of the specialist school targets in order to demonstrate how the strengths in the science specialism had the potential to promote quality teaching and learning and whole-school development.