Hopespring Sunderland

Overview: Hopespring Sunderland is an inclusive and welcoming school that carefully weaves learning and high levels of care together to help pupils reach their potential. Pupils feel safe and supported, and the school has high ambitions for what pupils can achieve.

Strengths:

• The school is a calm place to learn, helping pupils attend school more regularly.
• Pupils demonstrate improving attitudes to learning and want to do well.
• The school carefully supports pupils to meet high expectations for behaviour.
• Staff are experts in supporting the well-being of pupils and are well-supported by leaders and the proprietor.
• The school provides a wide range of experiences, including work experience, outdoor activities, and visits to local businesses.

Areas to improve:

• The school does not routinely make the most of opportunities to check on what pupils know and remember, which weakens how well the school tracks what pupils are remembering over time and how well they measure the impact of curriculum changes.
• In some subjects, the curriculum does not identify with sufficient precision the key knowledge pupils need to know and remember, which hinders how well pupils are able to connect and embed knowledge over time.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.