Lindon Bennett School

Overview

Lindon Bennett School continues to be a good school, providing a happy and supportive environment where pupils make significant strides in their personal development. Leaders maintain high expectations, ensuring that the curriculum is closely aligned with pupils’ education, health and care plan targets to support their individual progress. The school fosters extremely positive relationships between staff and pupils, with behaviour managed well and a calm, focused atmosphere in lessons.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe, are well supported, and enjoy coming to school, with bullying not being a problem.
• Staff are well trained and knowledgeable, delivering the curriculum effectively and checking pupils’ understanding often.
• The personal, social, health and economic education programme prepares pupils for life beyond the school community through activities like museum visits.
• Parents are positive about the school, particularly valuing the wide range of workshops and training opportunities offered to them.
• Staff work effectively as a team, sharing resources and good practice, with leaders supportive of staff well-being and workload.

Areas to improve

• In some subjects, the curriculum does not precisely identify the key knowledge and vocabulary leaders want pupils to learn, requiring clearer setting out of these objectives.
• The whole-school approach to teaching phonics is not used consistently, with some adults relying on sight memorisation, which limits pupils’ ability to read unfamiliar words.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders and staff knowing their pupils exceptionally well and being quick to identify and help those who need support.