Eden Park Academy

School progress monitoring inspection report

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The Eden School The Old Vicarage, High Street, Harmondsworth, West Drayton UB7 0AQ

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Main inspection findings

Part 8. Quality of leadership in and management of schools Paragraphs 34(1), 34(1)(a), 34(1)(b)  The previous monitoring inspection in March 2024 found that though progress had been made since the previous standard inspection, there remained an overriding lack of attention to detail in the leadership, management, and governance of this school.  The school’s post-inspection action plan lacked focus. The actions presented were not likely to result in consistent compliance with all the independent school standards.  This inspection found that things are going in the right direction. The school is in a transition phase, with leadership transferring to a new headteacher and the deputy headteacher taking on new responsibilities, including safeguarding. Leaders and governors are investing in new and better systems, resources, and training.  At this time, leaders and governors continue to demonstrate a lack of urgency and rigour

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Main inspection findings

in ensuring compliance with all the independent school standards. Checks are not regular or thorough enough, for example in ensuring that policies and other key documents are updated, accessible and accurate.  As a result, the requirements of this independent school standard remain not met.

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Compliance with regulatory requirements

The school does not meet the requirements of the schedule to the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014 (‘the independent school standards’) and associated requirements that were checked during this inspection. This included the standards and requirements that the school was judged to not comply with at the previous inspection. Not all of the standards and associated requirements were checked during this inspection.

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School details

This inspection was carried out under section 109(1) and (2) of the Education and Skills Act 2008, the purpose of which is to advise the Secretary of State for Education about the school’s suitability for continued registration as an independent school.

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School details

Gender of pupils in the sixth form Mixed

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School details

Annual fees (day pupils) £5,200 to £10,400

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School details

Date of previous standard inspection 31 January to 2 February 2023

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Information about this school

 The Eden School is an independent Seventh-Day Adventist school.  The school has provision for children in the early years, including two-year-olds. There were three children in the early years at the time of this inspection.  The school does not use any alternative provision.  The school’s previous standard inspection was in January 2023. The school’s most recent inspection was a progress monitoring inspection in March 2024.  Proprietor information continues to be missing from the national online database of schools, Get Information about Schools.

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Information about this inspection

 This inspection was carried out at the request of the registration authority for independent schools. The purpose of the inspection was to monitor the progress the school has made in meeting the independent school standards and other requirements that it was judged to not comply with at its previous inspection.  This was the school’s second progress monitoring inspection since its last standard inspection in January 2023. The inspection was conducted without notice.  Since the previous inspection, leaders were asked to submit another action plan. This was judged by Ofsted to be unsatisfactory and was subsequently rejected by the Department for Education in July 2024.  The focus of this inspection was to check whether the school complies with the part 8 requirements of the independent school standards.  The inspector toured the premises and met with a number of senior leaders, including the headteacher and those responsible for safeguarding. He met with a group of pupils

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Information about this inspection

in Years 10 and 11 and spoke to children in the early years.  The inspection also considered the school’s safeguarding arrangements, including the single central record of checks on adults. The relevant requirements in parts 3, 4 and 6 of the independent school standards continue to be met.

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Inspection team

James Waite, lead inspector Ofsted Inspector

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Annex. Compliance with regulatory requirements

The school does not meet the following independent school standards.

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Annex. Compliance with regulatory requirements

Standards that were not met at the previous inspection and remain unmet at this inspection

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Part 8. Quality of leadership in and management of schools

 34(1) The standard about the quality of leadership and management is met if the proprietor ensures that persons with leadership and management responsibilities at the school-

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Part 8. Quality of leadership in and management of schools

– 34(1)(a) demonstrate good skills and knowledge appropriate to their role so that the independent school standards are met consistently;

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