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Ofsted Third Special Measures Monitoring Visit

27th & 28th June 2017

Dear Parents and Carers

All Saints Catholic College had its third monitoring visit from Ofsted 27th and 28th June 2017. The report from this visit is now available for our parents and community to read. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your outstanding support over the academic year. The report is once again extremely positive and details the rapid and sustained progress we are making towards the removal of special measures. The lead inspector detailed that:
Leaders and managers are taking effective action towards the removal of special measures.
• Leaders are unrelenting in their pursuit of excellence for the pupils at All Saints.
• Pupils, parents and staff are proud of their school.
• The parent teacher association is determined to support leaders to overhaul standards. Communication with parents is much stronger.
• Pupil leaders assist the headteacher in driving improvements from the ground up.
• The school’s reputation in the community has changed for the better.
• Staff morale is high.
• Leadership and management across the school grow from strength to strength.
• Leaders accept the vision that only ethical and sustainable leadership will do.
• Every initiative is embedded so they result in long term changes not quick fixes.
• The team of dedicated, hardworking and unquestionably passionate staff make a valuable contribution to the pupils and school.
• Staff are determined that their pupils will be examples of ‘be inspired, be excellent, succeed.’
• Senior leaders are role models and have received visits from headteachers across the country to see their positive work.
• The senior leadership team is highly competent, unified and unremitting in its pursuit to drive up standards with enthusiasm.
• Staff are developed at all levels and are empowered to make a difference.
• Rapid improvement plans are driving significant change.
• No stone is left unturned – staff in the school have maintained rapid improvement and they must be congratulated.
• The governing body is outward-facing, knowledgeable and hold leaders to account for their work.
• Middle leaders feel valued. Middle leaders are driving up standards. They have training to grow them into the very strongest leaders. They embrace change and work with determination, integrity and courage. They are highly skilled practitioners.
• Pupils are determined that everyone should be respected and loved for their unique gifts and their differences.
• Improvements to teaching and learning are at the heart of the school. Improvements are meritorious and praiseworthy.
• Enthusiasm for improving teaching filters down into every classroom.
• There is a passion in the school to innovate and get it right for the pupils.
• The changes are so impressive that the school has gained accreditation to run teacher training even though it is in special measures.
• There is a regular focus on literacy development.
• There is more consistency with marking and feedback.
• There are examples of very effective teaching, learning and assessment in history, religious education, art and English. Pupils also make better progress in maths and science.
• Pupils’ behaviour across the school and in every classroom has improved beyond recognition. The school is calm, purposeful and welcoming.
• Pupils enjoy coming to school.
• The school is built on purposeful, positive relationships. There is a culture of harmony, tolerance and respect.
• Attendance rates have improved.
• Pupils want to take responsibility for their school community.
• A pupil leadership team is led by the head boy and head girl. They want All Saints to be recognised as an oasis of calm underpinned by the value of human worth.
• Pupils have high expectations of each other. They are now becoming truly aspirational.
• There is high quality careers education, advice and guidance. Pupils in all years engage with visits to universities, colleges or industry partners including Cambridge University.
• Pupils’ progress across the school is much stronger.
• The quality of work pupils produce is of a higher standard.
The contents of the letter supports our relentless drive to becoming the outstanding school that the community of Dukinfield deserves. We have a strong and dedicated staff and governing body and we will work tirelessly to sustain the changes for the benefit of our pupils. On behalf of the directors, governors, staff and pupils I would like to thank you all again for the support you have given our school and I look forward to working with you again next academic year.

Mrs Emmett