The Light Christian School

Overview: The Light Christian School does not meet all of the independent school standards that were checked during this inspection. The school has made some improvements, but there are still areas where it does not meet the required standards.

Strengths:

• Leaders have strengthened quality assurance processes in the school.
• Leaders have a clear view of how well staff are implementing the new curriculum.
• Governors visit the school to see first-hand the changes and their impact.
• The school has implemented commercial curriculums for mixed-age classes.
• Staff have received training on the new curriculum and adaptive teaching.
• The training for staff is having an impact, with pupils receiving an appropriate curriculum and staff providing clearer guidance to pupils.

Areas to improve:

• The proprietor and governors have not established how they will ensure ongoing compliance with the standards.
• Governance is in the early stages of development, with governors not knowing the standards sufficiently well to hold the school effectively to account.
• The school's self-evaluation is over-generous in its assessment of progress with improvement and impact.
• In some areas of the plan, there has not been sufficient attention to the order and timeliness of actions.
• Staff in early years do not undertake purposeful interactions to help develop children's language and learning.
• Staff do not understand when it is a suitable time in children's learning to change their reading books.
• The school does not meet the requirements of the schedule to The Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014.

Safeguarding: Safeguarding standards are met, with staff continuing to receive safeguarding training and the safeguarding policy following government guidance.