Twycross House Pre-Preparatory School

Overview: Twycross House Pre-Preparatory School provides a nurturing and caring environment where pupils settle into school routines with ease and develop a love of learning. Staff get to know each pupil's strengths and interests, and pupils feel safe and trust adults to support them. The school has a strong sense of belonging and community, and pupils make full use of the school's extensive grounds for outdoor learning and play.

Strengths:

• Staff nurture and care for each individual pupil, helping them to settle into school routines with ease.

• The school supports pupils to foster a love of learning and build a strong self-belief.

• Pupils enjoy reading and take pleasure in revisiting their favourite stories, with the school's phonics programme supporting pupils to read with fluency.

• The school has recently introduced new systems to identify and support pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), with staff providing tailored support and adapting learning accordingly.

• Strong, warm and positive relationships permeate the school, with pupils staying focused during lessons and approaching their learning with a positive attitude.

Areas to improve:

• Sometimes, pupils complete work that does not help them to achieve the aims and ambitions of the curriculum, with tasks not aligning closely to pupils' knowledge or stages of development.

• The proprietor does not have a full understanding of what is working well and what needs further development in the school, including the professional development staff require to deliver the curriculum as intended.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.