Beech Grove School

Overview: Pupils flourish at Beech Grove School, a happy, inclusive and welcoming school where they are extremely polite and considerate towards others. They have excellent attitudes towards their education, with extremely high rates of attendance and high levels of engagement in every classroom.

Strengths:

• Pupils are fluent and independent readers, with a strong culture of sharing and reading books.
• The school's curriculum creates opportunities for pupils to read and interpret various authors and genres.
• Pupils have a strong sense of social justice and equality, understanding fundamental British values and demonstrating respect and consideration towards others.
• The school's work to promote pupils' character is exceptional, with pupils learning to appreciate differences in the world and developing a strong sense of empathy and understanding.
• The school's curriculum is interesting and engaging in all areas, providing teachers with clear information about the precise knowledge that pupils should learn in each subject and the order in which it should be taught.

Areas to improve:

• Sometimes, teachers do not help younger pupils make links between what they have learned previously and what they are learning currently, where this happens, pupils do not learn as well as they could.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.