LPW Excellent

Lancing Prep Worthing has been judged ‘excellent’ across the board by the Independent Schools Inspectorate.

This excellent report is a testament to the whole school community, and I couldn’t be more proud of them all.

Head Heather Beeby and the senior management team are thrilled at the outcome of the ISI visit to the school in June 2022. This was a focused Compliance and Educational Quality inspection and the first full inspection since 2014. The inspection took place over four days, with the team observing lessons, talking to the Senior Management Team, the teaching and non-teaching staff and, perhaps most importantly of all, the LPW pupils.

Firstly, the school met all the regulatory standards for independent schools and for the statutory framework of the Early Years Foundation Stage. Secondly, the findings of the Educational Quality inspection were rated as excellent. ‘Excellent’ is the very highest grading that the ISI awards (and is the equivalent of the ‘outstanding’ grading used by Ofsted in its inspections).

The Educational Quality Inspection reports on the quality of the school’s work. It focuses on the two key outcomes: the achievement of the pupils, including their academic development, and the personal development of the pupils.

The key findings of the inspection are that the quality of the pupils’ academic and other achievements is excellent and the quality of the pupils’ personal development is excellent.

Drilling down into the report further, the inspectors made the following headline judgements on pupils’ academic and other achievements:

• Pupils of all abilities, including those in the EYFS, make excellent progress. • Pupils’ communication skills are excellent. They listen attentively and are highly articulate and confident speakers. • Pupils acquire increasingly sophisticated study skills as they move through the school. • Pupils have highly positive attitudes to their learning. They are extremely happy learners who are eager to learn. Turning to personal development, the inspectors reported:

• Pupils across the school show high levels of selfunderstanding and enthusiastically assume responsibility for their own learning. • Pupils are able to distinguish right from wrong. They are able to take responsibility for their own behaviour having highly positive relationships with each other and with staff. • Pupils make an outstanding contribution to the lives of others in the school and wider community.

Mrs Beeby is delighted with the outcome. ‘We are privileged to have such wonderful children at Lancing Prep Worthing and a first-class staff team who work so hard to deliver our three school aims: Love Learning, Be Kind and Go out in the World and Do Good. This excellent report is a testament to the whole school community, and I couldn’t be more proud of them all.’

The Independent Schools Inspectorate is appointed by the Department for Education to inspect association independent schools in England. It is also approved by the Department for Education to inspect British schools overseas, and by the Home Office to inspect private further education colleges and language schools. ISI inspections report to the Department for Education on the extent to which the statutory Independent School Standards are met. This recognises strong practice and drives improvement across the schools that the ISI inspect.

The full report may be viewed on the school website via this link: bit.ly/ISIReportLPW2022 and is also available on the ISI website.