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2016 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Ensure that all teachers benefit from further staff training and ongoing observation to improve their systematic checking of learners’ understanding and progress in lessons, and to prepare learners more thoroughly for GCSE examinations.

2009 Full Inspection Report

What does The Fashion Retail Academy need to do to improve further?

• Significantly improve key skills success rates by ensuring that learners complete the portfolio in a timely manner.
• Recognise and address the needs of individual learners through robust initial assessment and in the planning of lessons.
• Improve the monitoring of progress and support arrangements for level 2 learners to improve retention.
• Set individual and challenging learning and personal targets at the beginning and during the programme. FRA and learners to develop these together.
• Extend learners’ understanding of equality and diversity through improvements in the planning of the curriculum.
• Further develop and use timely management information to monitor and improve performance.
• Improve quality assurance arrangements, in particular the monitoring and support for teaching staff.
• Clearly define actions in the quality improvement plan by means of measurable targets.