Open Box Education Centre

Overview: Pupils thrive at this nurturing and caring school, where staff quickly get to know pupils and understand their specific needs, helping them to re-engage with education. Behaviour is exceptional throughout the school, and pupils work hard to reach high expectations.

Strengths:

• Pupils thrive in a nurturing and caring environment.
• Staff quickly get to know pupils and understand their specific needs.
• Behaviour is exceptional throughout the school.
• The rich and broad curriculum reignites pupils' existing talents and sparks new interests.
• Teachers are well-trained and present information clearly to pupils.

Areas to improve:

• There is not a consistent approach to how staff help pupils apply some of the important foundations of writing they learn during key skills sessions when writing in lessons.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.