Vishnitz Girls School

Overview: Vishnitz Girls School requires improvement overall, with good quality of education and behaviour and attitudes, but areas for improvement in personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision.

Strengths:

• Pupils are polite and welcoming, with leaders prioritising teaching them to behave respectfully and kindly.
• Pupils achieve highly, with leaders providing opportunities for enrichment through educational visits and projects.
• Children in the early years learn to read well, with the school's investment in resources and training ensuring effective delivery of the chosen programme.
• Staff are appreciative of the training and guidance provided, and value leaders' support in keeping workloads manageable.
• Pupils are enthusiastic about learning and work together cheerfully within lessons.

Areas to improve:

• Occasionally, pupils' errors and misunderstanding persist due to staff subject knowledge being less secure.
• Children in Reception do not have routine access to the early years resources, limiting their learning across the key areas of the early years curriculum.
• The school does not cover the required content for relationships education as set out in statutory guidance, and does not pay due regard to the full range of protected characteristics.
• Leaders have not ensured that all the independent school standards are met, and the proprietor should ensure that all the independent school standards are met.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.