Braidburn Special School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Braidburn School and Nursery Class in April 2025, engaging with parents, carers, children, and staff. The report evaluates the school’s work using quality indicators, finding that both the school and nursery class are performing at a "good" level in key areas. Inspectors expressed confidence that the school has the capacity to continue improving without further visits.

Strengths

• Staff and partners use daily routines and structures effectively to support participation in learning.
• Children and young people reflect school values well, with staff supporting them to build independence and grow.
• Pupils make positive progress in developing communication skills, enabling them to provide views and make choices.
• Learning, teaching, and assessment are evaluated as "good" for both the school and nursery class.
• Raising attainment and achievement, and securing children’s progress, are also rated as "good".

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders and staff should ensure all children experience consistently high-quality learning experiences matched appropriately to their needs.
• Staff should continue to develop their use of data to better understand how well children make progress during their time at the school.

Safeguarding

The provided report text does not contain specific statements regarding safeguarding arrangements or outcomes.