Westover Green Community School and Autism Centre

Overview: Westover Green Community School and Autism Centre is a school that provides a welcoming and inclusive environment for its pupils, with a strong focus on their wellbeing and safety. The school has made significant improvements in recent years, particularly in its leadership and governance, and has a clear vision for providing a high-quality education to all pupils.

Strengths:

• The school has a calm, orderly, respectful and positive learning environment, allowing pupils to concentrate and learn without distraction.
• Pupils behave well across the school, are keen to learn, and show respect for each other and for adults.
• The school provides a range of opportunities beyond the classroom, including clubs and enrichment activities, which broaden pupils' experiences and interests.
• The school has a strong focus on inclusion, with staff working to remove barriers to learning and providing reasonable adjustments and adaptations for pupils with SEND.
• The school's leadership team has a full understanding of the school's context and has worked to strengthen the quality of education provided to pupils.

Areas to improve:

• Pupils do not consistently achieve as well as they should in national tests and assessments over time, with significant gaps in their knowledge.
• Teaching across many areas of the curriculum is not consistent, with leaders not ensuring that teaching focuses on the most important knowledge pupils need to learn.
• Assessment is not used to precisely identify where pupils have developed misconceptions or have gaps in their knowledge, which can be remedied.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.