Broomhill School

Overview

The inspection team found that children demonstrate a "positive attitude to learning" and benefit from the school’s approaches to inclusion and diversity. However, the report indicates that the school requires "additional support and more time to make necessary improvements," with a further inspection planned within one year.

Strengths

• Children respond well to learning opportunities in interesting contexts, such as the wooded area.
• Approaches to inclusion and diversity enable children to be "valued members of the school community."
• The headteacher and senior leaders work with staff and the community to "drive forward school improvements."
• Staff support each other well and welcome opportunities for professional learning to improve outcomes.

Areas to improve

• Develop further approaches to learning, teaching, and assessment across the nursery and school to ensure "greater consistency" and a shared understanding of high-quality practice.
• Develop further approaches to tracking and monitoring children’s learning to ensure all children make the "best possible progress."
• Improve children’s experiences in the nursery class to ensure all children are supported to make the "best possible progress."

Safeguarding

The report evaluates "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" as satisfactory for both the primary stages and the nursery class, noting that approaches to inclusion enable children to be valued members of the community.