Educare Small School

Overview: Educare Small School is a good school that provides a safe, balanced, and nurturing education for children to develop their potential as individuals. Pupils are happy and well-supported, and leaders maintain high expectations and ambitions for their academic achievement.

Strengths:

• The school prides itself on individualised learning and care, helping pupils to become confident and respectful.
• Leaders maintain high expectations and ambitions for pupils' academic achievement, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• The school's early reading curriculum is successful in supporting pupils to learn to read, and teachers know how well pupils are getting better at reading.
• Pupils with SEND receive very bespoke care to allow them to access and learn the full curriculum.
• The school has a strong subject knowledge among staff, allowing them to deliver the intended learning effectively.

Areas to improve:

• The school's expectations for behaviour are not implemented consistently well, leading to interruptions to pupils' learning.
• A few aspects of the curriculum, including PSHE, are not as effective as others in expanding pupils' knowledge, particularly in developing pupils' awareness of fundamental British values and how these relate to society.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.