Lansbury Bridge School

Overview

Lansbury Bridge School has “taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection.” The report describes a “friendly, nurturing atmosphere” where pupils with complex needs thrive and develop confidence. Leaders have established a “broad and ambitious curriculum” tailored to individual developmental needs, ensuring pupils achieve well from their starting points.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy school, benefiting from “warm and trusting relationships with staff” that help them feel “safe and secure.”
• The curriculum is “organised clearly into the school’s own pathways,” accounting for the “varied complexities of pupils’ special educational needs.”
• “Communication and language are at the heart of the curriculum,” with pupils supported to express themselves through sign language, visual prompts, and assistive technology.
• There is a “high priority on the development of reading,” with carefully selected texts helping pupils build a “love of reading.”
• Governors are “knowledgeable about the school’s strengths” and proactive in assuring the quality of improvement work, while taking account of staff well-being.

Areas to improve

• In a “small number of subjects,” key knowledge is “less clearly defined,” making it difficult for staff to ensure pupils learn everything in the correct order. The school should ensure the curriculum “clearly sets out the key information that pupils should learn, and the order in which they should learn it” across all subjects.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”