Progress Schools - Wirral

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 3 June 2025

Pupils often arrive at this school with various emotional needs and negative prior experiences of education. The school puts into place highly personalised support for these pupils as soon as they arrive. Staff form trusting, mutually respectful relationships with pupils. Pupils are safe and feel cared for. The school is ambitious for what pupils should learn. It has introduced additional curriculum subjects to broaden pupils' education and widen their opportunities to achieve, which, in many cases, they do. The school upholds high standards for behaviour. Pupils appreciate and rise to these expectations. Classrooms are calm and purposeful learning environments. The school deals swiftly with any forms of bullying or discrimination. As a result, pupils report that incidents of bullying are rare. Pupils benefit from different, relevant enrichment opportunities. There are regular trips offered each term such as to nearby nature spots and local museums. This offer is enhanced by motivational reward trips on a half-termly basis. During break- and lunchtimes, pupils play table tennis and chess with their teachers or classmates. At certain points in the year, pupils also engage in charitable initiatives, for example to support food banks.

What the school should improve

• At times, staff do not adapt learning activities and resources as well as they could for some pupils, including those with SEND. This sometimes hinders these pupils' ability to learn the most important knowledge and skills. The school should ensure that staff have the guidance and expertise needed to adapt the delivery of the curriculum consistently well.
• The school's checks on pupils' learning are not consistently effective. This means that, in some cases, pupils repeat errors over time and some gaps in pupils' knowledge are not addressed as swiftly as they could be. The school should ensure that it uses assessment strategies consistently well to help pupils address their errors and close the gaps in their knowledge.
• The school's oversight of how well some subject curriculums are implemented is not as robust as it could be. In these subjects, some deficiencies in the delivery of the curriculum are not picked up and addressed as quickly as possible. This can hinder pupils' learning in these subjects. The school should develop its insight into the implementation of these curriculums so it can address any issues with the timely delivery of the curriculum.

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