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69. The school has an adequate supply of dual-language fiction books but rather less non-fiction. Most are in Urdu and English or Bangla and English. There are no books written only in the pupils’ mother tongues. This is because the quality of the few such books, which are available, is not high. 70. Care is taken in the purchase of resources. For example, books are examined to ensure they provide positive images of black people and cultures. Play equipment, such as dressing-up clothes or dolls, for use in the early years classes, is chosen carefully to reflect both the pupils’ background and the majority culture of the United Kingdom. 71. The school uses additional funding very well to provide additional support for pupils with special educational needs. The special needs co-ordinator deploys support staff very well. They provide imaginative and appropriately challenging work for their pupils and know them well. They have a thorough knowledge of their individual education plans and provide effective support to help pupils achieve their targets. 72. The co-ordinator provides good support for teachers in devising individual educational plans. However, teachers are not always fully involved in the later stages of this process and this aspect of provision could be better. 73. Senior teachers are involved in a comprehensive programme of monitoring teaching. This is effective in developing the curriculum and ensuring continuity in English and mathematics across age groups and key stages. It is less effective in developing teachers’ performance as it is not sufficiently focused on developing teaching skills, other than incidentally acting as a trigger to provide in-service education. 74. The school has close links through the headteacher with Manchester University and provides valuable initial teacher training facilities for postgraduate certificate of education students. New staff are very carefully inducted into the school through an excellent mentoring system which ensures they settle into the school very quickly. 75. A new school is being built on a site near the present school. The current building, although in poor condition, is well used and looked after so that pupils’ education is not affected. The teachers have made great efforts to make the building as attractive as possible and use the considerable space available to advantage. The move to a new school in the next academic year will answer all the criticisms made of accommodation in the last report. The level and quality of resources are good, the improvement since the last inspection of information and communication technology resources is particularly noticeable, as is the development and planning of the library which is indexed and has a good range of fiction and non-fiction books. Literacy and numeracy are well served and the requirements of all initiatives are well served by the priorities in the school development plan. Greenhill Community School - 24
WHAT SHOULD THE SCHOOL DO TO IMPROVE FURTHER? 76. The school should raise standards by: • developing strategies to improve attendance and punctuality (paras 20, 53, 97); • raise the awareness of the governing body as to its role and responsibilities in providing a clear direction for the school (paras 57, 61). Minor issues The governors may wish to consider the following: • The more effective use of the comprehensive monitoring programme to further develop teachers’ skills (para 73); • The implementation of information technology in school administration (para 61). Greenhill Community School - 25
Page 1 and 2: INSPECTION REPORT GREENHILL COMMUNI
Page 3 and 4: INFORMATION ABOUT THE SCHOOL Type o
Page 5 and 6: The inspection contractor was: PkR
Page 7 and 8: PART A: SUMMARY OF THE REPORT INFOR
Page 9 and 10: STANDARDS The table shows the stand
Page 11 and 12: satisfactory, is still a significan
Page 13 and 14: PART B: COMMENTARY HOW HIGH ARE STA
Page 15 and 16: 13. In all other subjects, standard
Page 17 and 18: 25. A particularly good feature of
Page 19 and 20: 41. The curriculum is planned to en
Page 21 and 22: 52. There are effective procedures
Page 23: to compensate for the overall lack
Page 27 and 28: Attainment at the end of Key Stage
Page 29 and 30: Results of the survey of parents an
Page 31 and 32: very good supervision of activities
Page 33 and 34: Physical development 85. Standards
Page 35 and 36: 90. In the national Curriculum test
Page 37 and 38: although on occasions lessons at th
Page 39 and 40: foods. 108. By the time they reach
Page 41 and 42: teaching of the subject through her
Page 43 and 44: provided with good support and make
Page 45 and 46: subjects. However, this is inconsis
Page 47 and 48: 158. Most pupils show positive atti
Page 49: 169. With reference to the previous

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