Elizabeth House School

Overview: Elizabeth House School provides a safe and welcoming environment for its pupils, who are supported to develop confidence and self-belief. However, the school's standards are not met in terms of the quality of education provided, and there are areas for improvement in leadership and management.

Strengths:

• Pupils are safe and happy at school, with staff providing effective support to make sure they feel settled and part of the school community.
• Pupils develop confidence and self-belief while at the school, accessing training and resources available within their locality.
• The school provides a well-considered personal development programme, considering the different challenges that each pupil faces in their lives.
• Pupils appreciate the need for rules and laws, developing a secure understanding of fundamental British values and learning how to develop and maintain positive relationships with others.

Areas to improve:

• The school does not consistently meet the standards for the quality of education provided, with pupils not making sufficient progress from their differing starting points.
• The curriculum does not provide the support that pupils need to build knowledge equally well in different subjects, and pupils are not as well prepared as they could be for their next stages of education, employment or training.
• Leaders do not have an accurate view of how effectively pupils learn across the curriculum, and teachers do not focus sufficiently well on pupils building stamina and fluency in reading, writing and mathematics.
• Leaders do not ensure that teachers have the subject-specific knowledge that they need to support pupils' learning equally well across the curriculum.

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.