The Valiant School

Overview: The Valiant School is a happy and safe environment where pupils feel valued and supported to improve their behaviour. The school has a strong focus on restorative practices and highly respectful relationships between staff and pupils. Pupils achieve well due to non-stop encouragement and support from staff.

Strengths:

• Pupils experience a warm welcome and unerring acceptance at the school.
• Staff provide consistent boundaries and a strong focus on restorative practices.
• The school has a relentless drive to get next steps right for pupils with SEND.
• Staff are highly skilled and successful at helping pupils understand and improve their behaviour.
• The school is relentless in ensuring pupils attend every single day.

Areas to improve:

• Sometimes, staff do not emphasise key knowledge in phonics and mathematics effectively.
• Sometimes, staff do not identify pupils’ next steps as carefully and precisely in core subjects.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.