Chantry Academy is smaller than the average-sized secondary school. Most pupils are from a White British background and very few speak English as an additional language. The proportion of pupils with SEND is above average. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils supported by the pupil premium is well above average. The school is sponsored by the Active Learning Trust. It joined the trust in 2015. The board of trustees for the Active Learning Trust is responsible for the governance of the school but has delegated some responsibilities to a small local governing body (LGB). The LGB is responsible for holding the headteacher to account for the standards of education in the school. There are currently a small number of pupils in key stage 4 who are attending full-time alternative provision at Suffolk New College. Inspection report: Chantry Academy, 6–7 November 2018 Page 8 of 10 Information about this inspection Inspectors made visits to classes to observe learning in all key stages. Inspectors also visited form periods. Some of these visits were made jointly with school leaders. Inspectors also scrutinised pupils’ work in a range of subjects and spoke to pupils about their learning. Meetings were held with senior and middle leaders, three members of the governing body and the trust’s director of school improvement and its secondary adviser. The lead inspector also had a telephone conversation with the chief executive officer of the trust. Inspectors considered the 48 responses to Ofsted’s staff questionnaire. Inspectors reviewed a range of school documents and policies, including behaviour and attendance information, pupil-progress information, the school’s own evaluation of its performance, minutes of the local governing body meetings and documentation relating to the safeguarding and well-being of pupils. Inspectors met with groups of pupils from each key stage and spoke to pupils when observing them at informal times, such as breaktime and lunchtime, to gather their views on the school. There were no responses to Ofsted’s online pupil survey. Inspectors considered the 132 responses to Ofsted’s online parent survey, Parent View, and the 32 free-text comments submitted by parents. Inspection team Caroline Pardy, lead inspector Ofsted Inspector Gulshan Kayembe Ofsted Inspector Rob James Ofsted Inspector Lynn Ayling Ofsted Inspector John Wilson Ofsted Inspector Inspection report: Chantry Academy, 6–7 November 2018 Page 9 of 10 Any complaints about the inspection or the report should be made following the procedures set out in the guidance ‘Raising concerns and making a complaint about Ofsted’, which is available from Ofsted’s website: www.gov.uk/government/publications/complaints-about-ofsted. If you would like Ofsted to send you a copy of the guidance, please telephone 0300 123 4234, or email [email protected].