Cliffdale Primary Academy

Overview: Cliffdale Primary Academy is a school that provides education for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities. The school has a strong standard in all areas, with leaders and staff working above the expected standard to provide a high-quality education and care for pupils.

Strengths:

• Pupils make significant progress from their starting points and achieve well across the curriculum.
• The school's behaviour policy is followed consistently, and pupils understand expectations of their behaviour and do their best to comply.
• The school's highly effective monitoring procedures mean that leaders have an astute understanding of the quality of curriculum and teaching.
• The school is highly inclusive, with leaders expertly identifying the best support for each pupil and adapting tasks skilfully in response to pupils' emerging needs.
• Leaders have high expectations and demonstrate a moral purpose to ensure that pupils achieve well.

Areas to improve: The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

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