Ashlea House School

Overview: Ashlea House School is a nurturing place where pupils are happy and supported to re-engage with their education. The school has high expectations for all pupils' achievement and most pupils meet these expectations by learning and achieving well.

Strengths:

• Pupils develop positive relationships with each other and with their teachers.
• Staff deal with behaviour issues sensitively, helping pupils to refocus on their work.
• Pupils have many opportunities to learn about life beyond school, including visits to museums, a farm, and a local observatory.
• Pupils enjoy volunteering in their community and raising money for charity.
• Staff help pupils to understand the risks that they may face online and in the local area.

Areas to improve:

• In a small number of subjects, the school has not identified clearly enough what knowledge it wants pupils to acquire, resulting in some pupils having insecure foundations on which to build new learning.
• A small number of staff lack aspects of the subject knowledge required to deliver curriculum content well, hindering how well some pupils achieve.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.