Craighalbert-Scottish Centre for Children with Motor Impairments

Overview

The inspection team found that staff work very well together to create a positive culture, led by a highly effective Head of Learning. Children and young people are attaining and achieving very well, with staff meeting their complex communication, learning, health, and care needs effectively.

Strengths

• Staff respect children’s rights and have "very high expectations of what children and young people can achieve."
• Communication skills are supported very well using symbols, eye gaze technology, and computer programmes to ensure "children and young people’s voices are heard."
• Education and health staff work very well together, meeting daily to ensure clear plans support learning, health, and care needs.
• Staff are "highly qualified and very well trained," carefully assessing needs to plan learning programmes that "suit very well each learner."
• Children and young people are "attaining and achieving very well," gaining a growing number of qualifications to show progress.

Areas to improve

• Staff should continue to work together to produce high quality personalised targets for children and young people.
• Staff should continue to build on positive steps to help parents become more involved in the life of the school.

Safeguarding

The report states that staff meet very well children and young people’s health and care needs, with education and health staff working together daily to ensure clear plans are in place to support them during the school day.