FOLLOWING an Ofsted inspection, a secondary school in Carlisle has been branded as 'Requires Improvement'. 

Trinity School, on Strand Road, was inspected by the education regulator between May 10 and 12.

The academy was rated 'good' in its last inspection and continued this run in areas such as personal development and sixth-form provision. 

However, categories such as quality of education, behaviour and attitudes and leadership and management were branded as 'requires improvement', making up for the overall effectiveness of the school to fall within the same category. 

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Ofsted have said that some teachers lack the expertise and knowledge necessary to deliver some aspects of subject curriculums consistently alongside a failure with some teachers not using the information that they have about pupils with special educational needs (SEND) effectively enough to support this group of pupils to access the same ambitious curriculum as their peers. 

The report also indicated that too many pupils, particularly disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND, do not attend school regularly enough. 

Headteacher of Trinity School, Jo Hawkin, said: "We are happy that Ofsted saw that most of our students enjoy attending our school and that they ‘understand and apply our Christian values of community, trust, endurance, hope and compassion.’

"This is something we see in them on a daily basis and we are proud of our students for this. 

"Our focus now, already identified for improvement as part of our own internal evaluation, is to develop the consistency of teaching and learning across all years in the school.

"We are committed to providing all students with a rich, challenging and ambitious curriculum in which all students are successful and leave equipped with the knowledge and skills to lead a life full to overflowing.

"We also need to work hard to ensure that students with SEND and some disadvantaged students attend school more regularly and we have already increased and restructured our attendance team to ensure that we can improve our strategies for reducing absence for these groups of students.

"We are already dealing with the areas the inspection identified as areas for improvement and we are confident that we will ensure that our students leave Trinity School with the skills and knowledge to enable them to lead full and fulfilling lives," she said. 

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