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Overview: Wharfedale Montessori School does not meet all of the independent school standards that were checked during this inspection. The school has made some improvements since the previous inspection, but there are still significant areas for improvement.
Strengths:
- The school has a curriculum in place that aligns with its Montessori ethos and enables all pupils to learn and make progress.
- Pupils are confident that bullying does not happen in their school and have an understanding of what bullying is and who they could tell if it was to happen.
- The school has a positive behaviour and anti-bullying policy, although it did not contain information about anti-bullying at the time of the inspection.
- The school has a structured programme for mathematics and other topics are addressed in line with the requirements of the independent school standards.
- The school has a first aid policy that contains the necessary information and the contents of the first aid box are within date and appropriate.
Areas to improve:
- The school does not meet the requirements of the schedule to The Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014 and associated requirements that were checked during this inspection.
- The school does not have a secure knowledge of the independent school standards and the admissions register does not meet legal requirements.
- The school does not have a clear plan or system for how leaders will ensure compliance with the standards.
- The school does not have sufficient oversight of the standards and a lack of strategy as to how they would be met over time.
- The school does not have a single central record of pre-employment checks and the safeguarding policy is not available to parents and carers.
- The school does not have a risk assessment policy in place and there is no clarity about which risk assessments would be written and by whom.
Safeguarding: The school does not meet the requirements for safeguarding, including the single central record of pre-employment checks and the safeguarding policy not being available to parents and carers.