St Andrew's Academy

Overview: St Andrew's Academy is a good school that continues to provide a supportive and safe environment for its pupils. The school's curriculum is ambitious and designed to meet pupils' individual needs, providing a broad and enriching experience. Pupils are well cared for and enjoy attending the school, with positive relationships between staff and pupils.

Strengths:

• Pupils are warmly welcomed and well cared for at St Andrew's Academy.
• Staff know the pupils well and relationships are very positive.
• The school's curriculum is ambitious and designed to meet pupils' individual needs.
• Pupils are helped to improve their language and communication skills.
• The school maintains close contact with families and provides many rich experiences that develop pupils' 'Learning for Life' skills.

Areas to improve:

• The new mathematics curriculum is not yet fully embedded, which can limit how well pupils develop their understanding of mathematical concepts.
• There is some inconsistency regarding the school's ambition for a 'total communication approach', with not all pupils having communication profiles and not all benefiting from the use of visual representations.
• On occasions, staff do not develop pupils' communication skills in lessons as well as they could.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.