Brompton Hall School

Overview

Brompton Hall School is a special academy where pupils value the "positive environment" and feel safe due to staff who "know them well." While the report notes "significant improvements" in pupil support and curriculum over the last two years, it states that "pupils are not doing as well as they could." The inspection highlights that while personal development and leadership are effective, attendance and engagement with learning remain inconsistent, particularly for older pupils.

Strengths

• Pupils benefit from a "range of trips and enrichment activities" and high-quality career support, including apprenticeships.
• The personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) curriculum is "central to pupils’ development" and helps them progress towards their education, health and care plan targets.
• Staff provide "careful pastoral support" to help pupils understand their emotions, fostering a culture where "positive relationships help pupils to engage."
• Reading is "being promoted well," with pupils quickly gaining the skills to become "confident, fluent readers."

Areas to improve

• The school must ensure work to improve attendance "continues and prioritises pupils’ learning," as too many pupils are regularly absent.
• Staff should implement structured support to develop pupils’ writing "effectively over time," as current provision is in its "very early stages."
• Teachers need to check pupils’ understanding "consistently well" before moving on, to prevent "gaps in pupils’ understanding" from going unaddressed.

Safeguarding

The report states that "the arrangements for safeguarding are effective."