Presfield High School and Specialist College

Overview: Presfield High School and Specialist College is a good school where pupils are warmly welcomed and benefit from a culture that celebrates uniqueness and difference. They enjoy strong, caring relationships with adults and are well prepared for their next steps in education.

Strengths:

• Pupils are warmly welcomed and benefit from a culture that celebrates uniqueness and difference.
• Pupils enjoy strong, caring relationships with adults.
• The school has high expectations and is successful in ensuring that most pupils achieve well.
• Pupils are well prepared for their next steps in education.
• The school offers a range of opportunities to increase pupils’ awareness and enjoyment of the world around them.

Areas to improve:

• In a small number of subjects, the school has not given sufficient thought to the essential knowledge that pupils must have and in what order they should acquire it.
• A few adults are less confident at using the agreed communication, language and social-interaction strategies, occasionally missing out on opportunities to develop and apply their communication and language skills across the whole curriculum.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.