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Icknield High School encourages all students to achieve their full potential and to become independent learners. Visit our offer for SEND and deaf students.

Where are you travelling from? Get directions Close. Please do not change the value of the following field. Additionally, pupils achieve better in some subjects than in others because not all subjects present an appropriate degree of challenge. Safeguarding is effective. All staff are committed to ensuring that pupils are safe in school.

You, your staff and members of the governing body regularly evaluate the impact of safeguarding procedures. The quality of staff training in safeguarding procedures is excellent. Systems are robust and all staff are up to date with their training. The school has followed the necessary procedures to the letter for any pupils whom it deems to be missing from school. There are strong relationships between members of staff and pupils, which ensures that pupils trust adults in school and share information with them, knowing that it will be acted on.

There is a no-blame culture if a member of staff makes a referral which proves to be unfounded. Staff told inspectors that they will not hesitate in making a referral if they have any concerns, rather than hesitate and run the risk of a situation being overlooked.

Governors are well informed about safeguarding matters. Safeguarding features as a regular agenda item on the student affairs committee and a member of the governing body contributed to a recent local authority review of safeguarding in the school. Any action points from this review were swiftly addressed. The single central record of recruitment checks of staff meets requirements and any minor administrative errors were quickly rectified during the inspection.

Inspection findings? Pupils enter the school with significantly low levels of prior attainment. By the time pupils leave the school in Year 11, their attainment improves so that they can compete with pupils from other schools to secure the next stage of their educational career. Progress made by pupils over time has been good, particularly in mathematics, French, German, science, business studies and visual arts. Although outcomes dipped in mathematics in , you have analysed in depth the reasons for this and taken appropriate action.

Leaders have added an additional hour to the teaching of English and mathematics to improve progress in these subjects. Skip to main content Cookies on Get Information about Schools We use some essential cookies to make this service work.

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School type Academy converter. Gender of entry Mixed. Establishment status Open. Admissions policy Non-selective. Telephone Ofsted rating Good Last inspection: 14 September Ofsted report opens in new tab.

Data from other services Compare school and college performance opens in new tab Schools financial benchmarking opens in new tab. The complete bid was on a basis of phasing over some two years.

The cost, as my hon. Unfortunately, the bid was unsuccessful. The failure of the bid is probably the most worrying thing for my constituents and the school. I cannot emphasise enough to my hon. Friend that the school now faces a health and safety crisis. If something is not done extremely quickly, in the summer term of this academic year, it may have to send pupils home, because it is not up to the standard demanded by current legislation or the local authority.

The school faces a further serious problem, relevant to the fact that it is now grant maintained, in that it is extremely difficult to find an insurance company that will provide cover. My hon. Friend will know—I perhaps guess at this—that the school could not carry on as a legal entity unless it was fully covered by insurance.

Unless some of those improvements are made, it will find it extremely difficult—nay impossible—to find an insurance company that will give it the cover that it and the legislation demands. Friend will forgive me for talking of matters of construction rather than of education, because I am perfectly happy—as are the parents—with the education that pupils get at that school. My point is about the fabric.

The first priority to avoid the closure of the canteen—for action during, if not before, the Easter holidays of this year—is on three bases. First, the kitchens must be brought up to requirements. If they are not, they will close and some school meals will not be served. That will obviously be a problem and will cause severe embarrassment to myself, the governors and staff. Secondly, the cold water system and incoming mains are incredibly old. There is some hint, but no more than that, of the possibility of zinc poisoning.

It is not for me to put any fears in the minds of parents about the health of their children, but that has been pointed out in some plans. The cold water system and incoming mains must be improved. Thirdly, an immediate concern is the domestic hot-water system itself, which, I believe, has never reached the required hot-water standard—whatever that is. The boilers have been bastardised—I hope that you will forgive the expression, Mr.

Deputy Speaker—by the use of "two into three": that is a construction term, meaning taking from one and giving to the other two. The boilers are now incredibly lame, and—dare I say—would not be fitting for this place, let alone for one of my constituency's flagship schools.

I know that an emergency fund exists, and I ask my hon. Friend the Minister to consider urgently the possibility of using at least that amount for the school.

The second priority is action that will be required by September , because of the impending cold weather. There are safety hazards in the boiler room.

The caretaker is a very honourable fellow, who spends a good deal of his time manually raising the temperature of the water to the required levels—which may not be the highest levels—at some risk to his own safety.

A good deal of mechanical and electrical work is needed in that boiler room. I do not wish to give the House the impression that I have any great mechanical knowledge—perhaps my hon.

Friend the Minister has: he is nodding—but the school assures me that this is very important. I do not want levity to lessen the impact of what I am saying. The other part of this second priority is the need to improve the laboratory services and fittings, which are old and inadequate for the modern needs of school children.

Friend the Minister would expect. The third priority—which must be dealt with in the longer term, but which is nevertheless necessary—is a phased replacement of the asbestos roof and the installation of fire breaks.

I do not need to go into the details; my hon. Friend will understand that the roof must be replaced as soon as possible—as soon as money is available for the purpose. Friend may be somewhat surprised that I should ask for an increase in some form of public expenditure. He and I came to the House together in Although we sat on the same Benches, we had different opinions on various matters; but the fact that he is now on the Front Bench and I am still on the Back Benches may give some idea of his abilities.

I now ask him to overcome any prejudice that he may feel about my public-expenditure policy: after all, every hon. Member is allowed a little discretion on occasion. Disturbingly, the school's reaction to the rejection of the bid was somewhat contrary to information that my hon. Friend may have been given.

Was the bid looked at properly?