Ofsted Report

Harmonize Academy Celebrates Third Outstanding Ofsted Inspection Outcome May 2025

Harmonize Academy AP Free School in Kensington, Liverpool, is proud to announce a glowing outcome from its latest Ofsted inspection in May 2025. The report confirms that the school has "taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection," reinforcing Harmonize Academy’s status as a three-times Outstanding school — first judged Outstanding in 2015, and now validated again through two successive Section 8 inspections.

Inspectors praised the school’s "strong ethos of trust, respect, compassion and forgiveness," highlighting the exceptional relationships between staff and pupils. They noted that pupils feel safe, supported, and are thriving both academically and personally.

Key Strengths Recognised by Ofsted:

  • High academic expectations and strong pupil progress
  • A broad, well-tailored curriculum including GCSEs and vocational subjects
  • Outstanding behaviour and improved attendance
  • Strong support for pupils with SEND
  • Effective reading strategies and personal development programmes
  • Excellent careers advice and post-16 transition outcomes
  • High staff morale and robust safeguarding practices

Inspectors were particularly impressed with the enrichment opportunities available to students, including cultural trips, and creative programmes such as dance and photography.

Principal Marie McConville commented:

“This report is a testament to the dedication of our staff and the resilience of our pupils. We are immensely proud to be recognised once again for the positive, supportive and ambitious environment we’ve built at Harmonize.”

Chair of Trustees Modupe Omideyi added:

“We are delighted with this outcome. The report reflects our unwavering commitment to giving every young person the chance to succeed, no matter their starting point.”

Harmonize Academy remains one of the region’s most respected alternative provision schools, known for its nurturing approach and exceptional outcomes for young people who have often faced significant barriers in mainstream education.

Click Here to view the full May 2025 Ofsted report.

 

Previous Report

We are delighted to announce that Harmonize Academy continues to be an outstanding school following an Ofsted visit by Pippa Jackson Maitland, HMI on 14th and 15th January 2020.

The report says, “The best thing ever – this is how pupils describe their experience at Harmonize Academy. From their first day, pupils feel part of a happy school community” and they are given the chance to “turn their lives around”. The school was acknowledged as being “exceptionally successful at helping pupils become the best version of themselves’’ and that the “school succeeds where no one else can”.

The school’s curriculum was praised for putting “the needs of pupils at its heart” by offering academic subjects and a wide range of options which result in significant academic achievement. We were also commended for ‘a fantastic enrichment curriculum’ which enables pupils to develop interests, contribute to the local community, and improve their well-being. Ofsted further reported that, ‘Pupils develop into respectful, caring and considerate young people. This is because the school prioritises pupils’ personal development extremely well’.

Ofsted praised the safeguarding arrangements for being effective saying, “All staff are aware of the particular risks to pupils at this school. They know the signs to look for and what to do if they suspect that any pupil may be at risk of harm.” It was also noted that Harmonize Academy works exceptionally well with families, partner schools and other agencies.

The report also highlights the help that pupils are given to enable them to cope better with their situations, especially those who have experienced trauma, and the dedicated work of the teachers to engage pupils with education and raise their aspirations.

We are proud to tell you that Harmonize Academy has gone from strength to strength since our last inspection and we would like to express our thanks to all our parents, carers, governors and partner organisations for your continued support.

Click Here to view the full January 2020 Ofsted report.

Click Here to view the first March 2015 Ofsted report.