Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School Limited

Overview: Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School Limited is a school that provides a high-quality education to its pupils, with a strong focus on the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum. The school has a welcoming and inclusive environment, where pupils feel safe and valued. The school's leaders have a clear vision for the school and its pupils, and they are committed to seeing the school and its pupils flourish.

Strengths:

• Pupils of all ages are able to talk about their learning and draw on what they already know, often in impressive depth.
• The school's high expectations of pupils' behaviour are rooted in making the right choices for themselves, others, and the school environment.
• The school's personal development programme is embedded across all aspects of school life, and pupils learn how to stay safe, maintain healthy lifestyles, and build positive relationships.
• The school's leaders have a clear vision for the school and its pupils, and they are committed to seeing the school and its pupils flourish.
• The school's curriculum is well-sequenced and balances the distinctiveness of the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum with ensuring that pupils acquire the qualifications they need for future success.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should ensure that staff check more effectively how much pupils have understood and learned 'in the moment' during lessons.
• Leaders should ensure that all staff are confident about how to best support pupils' learning at different stages of the lesson.
• Leaders should build on their emerging analysis of the attendance of different groups of pupils to identify which groups may need more precise strategies to improve their attendance.
• Leaders should ensure that the PSHE curriculum is delivered in a way that helps pupils to develop a deeper knowledge and understanding of key topics.

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