Green Lane Community Special School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 11 February 2025

Pupils love to come to this welcoming school. They are greeted each morning by enthusiastic staff with open arms and beaming smiles. Pupils benefit enormously from kind, compassionate and highly skilled staff. They know that staff care for them deeply and that there is always an adult there for them when needed. Pupils feel happy and know that they are in safe hands. Staff have the highest of ambitions for every pupil. From the youngest to the oldest, there are no limits to their possible achievements. Staff have a thorough understanding of pupils' unique and complex needs. The curriculum is aspirational. Pupils are exceptionally well prepared for their next steps in education. The school skilfully helps pupils to manage their own behaviour and their emotions. Staff are experts at picking up when pupils are anxious or unsettled. They respond quickly and sensitively. Pupils' personal development is woven through everything the school does. Pupils enjoy the many experiences they are offered. This includes the numerous trips and visits and the varied lunchtime clubs. Pupils talk with enthusiasm about enterprise activities where they manage a budget as well as design and make products to sell.

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