Dear Students Inspection of Meols Cop High School, Southport, PR8 6JS Thank you for making us so welcome when we visited your school. We were very impressed with your behaviour around school and we really liked all your work that was on display. We found that your school is a good school that cares exceptionally well for you. We visited some of your lessons and had meetings with a number of you and some of the staff. We also looked at the results of questionnaires sent in by your parents. The vast majority of your parents are very positive about the school. Most of you enjoy being at school and you told us that the rare instances of bullying are dealt with effectively and you feel safe. The school works very hard to help everyone settle in and this includes students who arrive after Year 7. Your teachers work very hard and have high expectations of you. Most of your lessons are good and a few are outstanding, especially in mathematics. You work hard and make good progress. These factors have led to the big improvement in examination results in 2007. However, results in English and information and communication technology were not as good as in other subjects. We have asked your headteacher to work with the staff to help you do better in these subjects. You can play your part in this by working as hard as you can and, for English, by doing more reading at home. Attendance at your school is about average but some of you arrive late in the morning. We would like every one of you to make a real effort to come to school every day and to arrive on time. The school provides a good range of courses and subjects for you, but we have asked the headteacher and staff to look at broadening the options at Key Stage 4 so that you have even more choice. Many of you take advantage of the excellent extra-curricular activities on offer, particularly sports which many of you told us you really enjoy. We wish you every success in the future Yours sincerely Ruth James HMI
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