KWS School

Overview: KWS School provides a high-quality education to its pupils, who achieve well from their individual starting points. The school's curriculum is designed to meet pupils' academic, social, and emotional needs, and leaders have established an inclusive approach that reflects pupils' individual needs and circumstances.

Strengths:

• Pupils achieve well from their individual starting points and develop secure foundations in reading, writing, and mathematics.
• The school's curriculum is designed to meet pupils' academic, social, and emotional needs, and is well sequenced across most subjects.
• Leaders have established an inclusive approach that reflects pupils' individual needs and circumstances, and staff build robust relationships with pupils.
• The school provides a broad range of experiences that extend beyond the classroom, including educational visits, residential trips, and work-related learning.
• Pupils learn about democracy, individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance, and develop an understanding and respect for different cultures, beliefs, and communities.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should further develop their systems for tracking and analysing information so that decisions about improvement are increasingly precise and responsive to pupils' needs.
• The curriculum should be equally ambitious and well sequenced across all subjects so that pupils build their knowledge securely over time through the entire curriculum.
• Leaders should identify intended outcomes for pupils with additional needs with even greater precision, so that provision meets pupils' needs as closely as possible and supports them to achieve well.

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