Here is an extract from the Ofsted report of September 2006.

Following our visit to your school we would like to thank you for making us feel so welcome and for talking to us about your experiences. We would like to tell you what we found out about your school.

• Everyone is very proud of your school's specialist status as a Science and Technology College and we think you have better choices for GCSE as a result of this.
• You achieve good standards in English and mathematics.
• Teaching is good and you enjoy lessons especially when they are practical and take notice of what you can already do.
• Your behaviour is mostly good and this helps everyone to learn in lessons.
• Your school does well to include everyone in as many activities as possible.
• You told us that not enough consideration is given to your views, and we agree.
• We have said that standards in French, history and dual award science must be improved.
• Now that you have a new headteacher we have asked him to involve all the staff in finding out about what is working well or what needs improving.
• We have asked that the school improves the ways in which it tests your knowledge and uses the results to plan what you need to learn next.

Thank you for helping us so much with the inspection of your school. We hope you will carry on enjoying learning and helping your teachers to make Castlebrook High School an even better place to learn.

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