An underperforming secondary school has been told to improve and handed a 10-point plan by inspectors.

The Charles Dickens School in Broadstairs was visited by Ofsted last month and handed the requires improvement rating - third out of the four levels issued by the education watchdog.

Inspectors pointed out "inconsistent" quality of teaching and GCSE exam results being "well below the national average" last year.

But they did highlight changes are starting to take place praising the school's leadership for being "tireless in tackling the areas of weakness".

Lead inspector Mark Bagust added the work by the leadership team is having a "demonstrable impact on improving the school".

The report published this week notes concerns about higher ability pupils not being challenged in some lessons while other less able members of the class - those with special educational needs and disabilities - were sometimes not support well enough either.

"Strengths in some lessons are not evident throughout and some teachers do not plan lessons carefully enough," it said.

"Teachers do not consistently communicate high expectations of good behaviour or standard of work they want pupils to achieve."

But the report showed leaders have "resolutely tackled weak teaching" with support from the school to raise teaching practices with "strong teaching found in a number of subjects".

This was leading to pupils "making better progress" than they had done in previous years.

Inspectors found there had been a "rapid turnover" of staff which had been slowed with leaders stabilising the school but pupils experiencing "several changes of teachers" across the school "limited their motivation and progress".

The report added pupils were well behaved despite "low-level disruption" hampering learning in some classes needing to be dealt with.

The 10 points issued by inspectors to the school include taking action to ensure teachers plan appropriate learning activities for all abilities "based on a secure understanding of pupils' prior attainment and learning needs", making sure pupils use feedback to improve work, responding consistently to poor behaviour.

The school opened in 2017 when it was taken over by the academy trust which runs Barton Court Grammar School in Canterbury.

At the last inspection of the school's predecessor in September 2014, inspectors placed the school in special measures. Since then, three different partners have been brought in to oversee the school's improvement before the Barton Court Academy Trust took over two years ago.

The school has been approached for comment.

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