Springfield House School

Overview: Springfield House School provides a supportive and inclusive environment where pupils can re-engage with learning and achieve well. The school has high expectations for pupils' behaviour and achievement, and pupils enjoy their learning, with a very high attendance rate.

Strengths:

• Pupils enjoy their learning and achieve well, with a broad and balanced curriculum that inspires and supports them.
• The school provides a range of trips and activities that are tailored to each pupil's needs, significantly enhancing their understanding of the wider world.
• Pupils behave exceptionally well and focus on their learning due to the school's inclusive and supportive environment.
• The school's work to promote pupils' personal development is exceptional, with all pupils taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and making wider contributions to society.
• Staff skilfully encourage pupils to behave well and teach them effective strategies to manage their own behaviour.

Areas to improve:

• Staff do not use their checks on pupils' understanding effectively enough, resulting in pupils sometimes moving on to new learning before securing important knowledge.
• Sometimes, the tasks that teachers select for pupils do not help them to secure the important knowledge that they need well enough.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.