Brooke House Day School

Overview: Brooke House Day School provides a supportive and inclusive learning environment where pupils make steady and sustained progress through the curriculum. The school has a strong focus on relationships between staff and pupils, which helps pupils to meet the consistently high standards of behaviour that staff expect. Pupils feel safe, valued and welcome, and are proud to be part of such a supportive community.

Strengths:

• Pupils make steady and sustained progress through the curriculum across subjects and year groups.
• Leaders track pupils' attendance with great care and work closely with parents and external agencies to offer support for pupils who struggle to attend well.
• Warm and caring relationships between staff and pupils are at the heart of the school's work, helping pupils to meet the consistently high standards of behaviour that staff expect.
• The school provides an inclusive learning environment, where leaders promptly identify pupils who have barriers to their learning, including disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Pupils learn well and socialise successfully with others, and many parents appreciate the warm and welcoming learning environment the school provides.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should continue to adapt and refine the curriculum so that pupils with the most significant barriers to learning can achieve consistently well.
• Leaders should continue to work closely with families and external agencies to improve the attendance of pupils who are persistently absent.
• Leaders should provide staff with more opportunities to participate with each other in professional learning activities, so that staff can share their ideas and develop their expertise as a staff team.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, meaning that leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfil their specific responsibilities and have established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.