Progress Schools Wigan

Overview: Progress Schools Wigan is a school that caters for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities. The school prioritises helping pupils to feel safe and settled in school, and leaders take a rigorous approach to identifying and reducing barriers to pupils' wellbeing. Pupils typically get along well with each other and do not worry about bullying, which rarely happens.

Strengths:

• Leaders prioritise helping pupils to feel safe and settled in school.
• Great emphasis is placed on getting to know pupils and building positive relationships with them and their families.
• Leaders take a rigorous approach to identifying and reducing barriers to pupils' wellbeing.
• Pupils typically get along well with each other and do not worry about bullying, which rarely happens.
• Pupils benefit from opportunities to engage with the local community.

Areas to improve:

• Pupils' learning across the curriculum is uneven, with some subjects showing steady progress and others being limited due to inconsistencies in the quality of teaching.
• The curriculum is not taught as intended in a few subjects, and staff do not ensure that pupils have the opportunity to learn all that they should.
• Teaching is not consistently effective across different subjects, with some staff lacking sufficient depth of knowledge to explain difficult concepts to pupils clearly or to identify and address any misconceptions.
• The school's enrichment offer is limited, hindering pupils from broadening their experiences beyond the curriculum.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.