Sunningdale School

Overview: Sunningdale School continues to be an outstanding school, providing a high-quality education and exceptional care for its pupils with severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple learning difficulties, and autism spectrum disorder.

Strengths:

• Pupils receive the highest levels of care, support, and learning from the moment they start at the school.
• Leaders have developed an inspirational curriculum tailored to meet the needs of all pupils, resulting in exceptionally high levels of engagement in learning.
• Staff know pupils extremely well and adjust learning activities continuously to ensure they are appropriate.
• Pupils make rapid progress from their starting points, with strong progress in all areas of the curriculum.
• The school's purpose-built building provides pupils with access to the resources they need to learn, including a role-play learning village, sensory spaces, and a hydrotherapy pool.
• Staff are tirelessly creative in seeking out the best ways to support pupils, and the school's behaviour is exemplary despite the many barriers and challenges that pupils face.

Areas to improve: The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders maintaining a strong culture of safeguarding and staff receiving regular safeguarding training.