Oxfordshire Hospital School

Overview

Oxfordshire Hospital School continues to be an outstanding school, successfully supporting pupils who are medically unable to attend their enrolled school. The report highlights that pupils achieve extremely well, benefiting from a highly bespoke curriculum tailored to their medical and educational needs. Staff build warm, professional relationships that help pupils feel safe, valued, and engaged in their learning.

Strengths

• Staff expertly tailor the curriculum to meet individual medical and educational needs, ensuring pupils can "keep up with learning" despite health challenges.
• Pupils show "positive attitudes to learning" and feel "happy and very safe," with inpatients noting that schoolwork provides a "sense of normality."
• There is a "very high proportion of pupils who successfully reintegrate back into a school" when well enough to do so.
• Teaching staff are "highly trained in hospital education" and adeptly adapt to pupils’ changing needs, including the effects of medication on memory.
• Personal, social and health education is "highly bespoke," skilfully addressing gaps in knowledge about healthy relationships in an age-appropriate way.

Areas to improve

The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with well-trained staff maintaining strong communication with the NHS to ensure pupils "quickly get any additional help they need to keep safe."