Garden House School ISI Report - Flipbook - Page 8
Educational Quality Inspection
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3.
Educational Quality Inspection
Preface
The EDUCATIONAL QUALITY inspection reports on the quality of the school’s work. It focuses on the two
key outcomes:
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The achievement of the pupils, including their academic development, and
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The personal development of the pupils.
The headline judgements apply one of the ISI descriptors ‘excellent’, ‘good’, ‘sound’ or ‘unsatisfactory’.
Where necessary, National Curriculum nomenclature is used to refer to year groups in the school. Where the
school’s own names differ from those used nationally, the details are given in the table below:
School name
National Curriculum name
Kindergarten (EYFS)
Nursery
Preparatory (EYFS)
Reception
Transition
Year 1
Junior School
Year 2
Middle School I
Year 3
Middle School II
Year 4
Upper School I
Year 5
Upper School II
Year 6
Key findings
3.1
3.2
The quality of the pupils’ academic and other achievements is excellent.
Pupils are excellent communicators, they speak articulately with passion, empathy, confidence
and assurance; they use advanced vocabulary well and read, write and speak fluently.
Pupils of all ages and abilities achieve excellent levels of knowledge, skills and understanding
across the curriculum and in extra-curricular activities.
Pupils make excellent progress, achieving at levels in advance of expectations for their ages.
Pupils apply excellent attitudes to their learning, readily taking responsibility for their learning
and showing initiative, resilience, and tenacity.
The quality of the pupils’ personal development is excellent.
Pupils have an exceptionally well-developed sense of respect and value for all people,
appreciating the value of positive relationships without any form of discrimination.
Pupils demonstrate an acute understanding of right and wrong, demonstrating a mature
understanding of the importance of kindness.
Pupils’ social development is excellent; they collaborate with ease to solve problems with others
in lessons and extra-curricular activities.
© Independent Schools Inspectorate 2021
Garden House School – October 2021
