Music Stuff

Overview: Music Stuff is a good independent school that provides a caring and nurturing environment for its pupils, who all have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). The school has improved significantly since the previous inspection and has redesigned its curriculum successfully. Pupils enjoy being part of the school and build important skills such as resilience, independence, and forming relationships.

Strengths:

• Pupils enjoy being part of a caring and nurturing school with staff who go to great lengths to get to know each pupil as an individual.

• The school has high expectations of pupils' academic learning, which helps them to achieve well.

• Pupils develop the confidence they need to re-engage with their education and build important skills such as resilience, independence, and forming relationships.

• The school's curriculum for personal, social, health and economic education supports pupils' personal development well.

• Pupils receive suitable independent careers advice and guidance about further education, employment, and training.

Areas to improve:

• Teacher's checks on pupils' understanding are not applied consistently, which means that at times, pupils develop misconceptions that are not identified or corrected.

• The number of pupils who are persistently absent remains high, which means that some pupils do not benefit as often as they should from the good quality of education that the school provides.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with a comprehensive safeguarding policy in place, effective arrangements to keep pupils safe, and staff who have the training and support they need to identify pupils who may be at risk of harm.