Progress Schools - Wirral

Overview: Progress Schools - Wirral is a good school that provides a supportive environment for pupils with emotional needs and negative prior experiences of education. The school puts into place highly personalised support for these pupils, and staff form trusting relationships with them. Pupils are safe and feel cared for.

Strengths:

• Pupils often arrive at the school with various emotional needs and negative prior experiences of education, but the school provides highly personalised support.
• Staff form trusting, mutually respectful relationships with pupils.
• The school is ambitious for what pupils should learn and has introduced additional curriculum subjects to broaden pupils' education.
• The school upholds high standards for behaviour, and pupils appreciate and rise to these expectations.
• Pupils benefit from different, relevant enrichment opportunities, such as trips to nearby nature spots and local museums.

Areas to improve:

• At times, staff do not adapt learning activities and resources as well as they could for some pupils, including those with SEND.
• The school's checks on pupils' learning are not consistently effective, which means that pupils repeat errors over time and some gaps in pupils' knowledge are not addressed as swiftly as they could be.
• The school's oversight of how well some subject curriculums are implemented is not as robust as it could be, which can hinder pupils' learning in these subjects.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.