Clifford Holroyde Sen College

Overview: Clifford Holroyde Specialist SEN College is a caring and nurturing school where pupils feel safe, happy, and valued. The school has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection, and most pupils rise to the school's high expectations and achieve well.

Strengths:

• The school is a caring and nurturing environment where pupils feel safe and valued.
• Staff work hard to build trusting relationships with pupils, helping them to manage their behaviour and remain calm.
• Pupils typically behave well in lessons and around the school, showing positive attitudes to learning.
• The school places a strong focus on developing pupils' character and resilience, teaching them about healthy and respectful relationships, different faiths and beliefs, and preparing them for adulthood.
• Staff work together as a close-knit, highly committed team, enjoying working at the school and appreciating the support they receive for their well-being and workload.

Areas to improve:

• The school's strategies for supporting pupils who struggle with reading are still in the early stages of implementation, leaving a small number of pupils with gaps in their reading knowledge.
• Some pupils do not attend school as often as they should, missing too much learning and developing gaps in their knowledge.
• The school's plans to develop a minority of pupils' reading fluency and confidence are not fully in place, meaning that those pupils who find reading difficult do not access the curriculum as well as they could.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.