Kingsbury Primary Special School

Overview

Kingsbury Primary Special School continues to be an outstanding school, where pupils thrive in a supportive and aspirational environment. Leaders maintain high expectations, ensuring that pupils with complex needs make exceptional progress from their starting points through a meticulously designed curriculum.

Strengths

• Pupils form strong bonds with caring staff who prioritise understanding individual strengths and needs, creating an atmosphere where pupils feel ‘surrounded by happiness’.
• The curriculum is rooted in sound educational research and places pupils’ needs at the core, using EHC plans to design personal learning pathways with precise targets.
• Staff are exceptionally responsive to changes in pupils’ demeanour, utilising a new emotional regulation approach that has been ‘transformational’ in helping pupils manage their feelings and engage with learning.
• Leaders prioritise communication skills through every aspect of school life, employing resources such as objects, pictures, symbols and technological aids to help pupils control their environment.
• Parents are ‘overwhelmingly appreciative’ of the school, describing it as ‘more than a school, it is a family’ due to the life-changing difference staff make.

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with staff receiving regular training to stay alert to signs of risk and following clear procedures to report concerns without delay.