King's Academy Lord Wilson

Overview:

Pupils benefit from the specialist support and care they receive at this school, which has a strong sense of trust between pupils and staff. Pupils feel safe and secure enough to take part in lessons and learn. The school environment is mostly calm, and pupils value their learning, especially in English and mathematics.

Strengths:

• Pupils benefit from the specialist support and care they receive at this school.
• The mutually warm and kind relationships between pupils and staff foster a strong sense of trust.
• Pupils feel safe and secure enough to take part in lessons and learn.
• The school environment is mostly calm.
• Pupils value their learning, especially in English and mathematics.
• The special educational needs and/or disabilities provision within the school is effective.
• Leaders have prioritised the personal development of pupils, providing them with a range of wider opportunities beyond the classroom.

Areas to improve:

• In a small number of subjects, leaders have not embedded all of their changes to the curriculum, meaning that pupils are not consistently learning as well as they could across the entire curriculum.
• Leaders are still refining their approach to personal development and wider opportunities, meaning that pupils do not develop life and employability skills as well as they could.
• Persistent absence of pupils remains high, meaning some pupils are not fully benefiting from all that school has to offer.

Safeguarding:

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders ensuring that staff are well trained to spot when a pupil or their family may need help, and that safeguarding records are well organised and detailed.