The Beeches Independent School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 15 July 2025

Pupils had disruptions to their education or struggled to attend school regularly prior to attending here. This school provides the care and security they need to support them to successfully re-engage with learning. Their attendance significantly improves, as does their overall well-being. Pupils enjoy the different subjects they are taught and know the school wants them to do well. They learn key life skills ready for adulthood, such as in food technology. Leaders have high expectations for pupils. However, the work pupils are currently set often does not deepen or extend their understanding. As a result, some pupils do not achieve as highly as they could. The school provides a high level of pastoral support. It is overall a calm place in which to learn. Pupils build warm and positive relationships with staff and the proprietor body. Staff successfully settle pupils who are feeling worried or anxious. Pupils value being in small classes and close adult attention. Pupils trust adults to help them. However, pupils would benefit further from the proprietor body checking in more detail the quality of provision to ensure the high standards leaders intend are consistently achieved. Pupils develop their interests in 'enrichment' sessions, such as in art, design and cooking. They enjoy visits from the sports coach, learning about different festivals and going on nature walks.

What the school should improve

• Several staff feel they are not well supported to fulfil the expectations of their role. This impacts on how well the school's vision can be realised. The proprietor body needs to work constructively with staff to ensure staff can carry out their roles effectively.
• The proprietor body's checks on some aspects of the school's work are not as thorough as required. This impacts how well they understand the effectiveness of their systems for improving the provision. The proprietor body needs to strengthen their oversight of the care and education pupils receive to be fully assured processes are understood by staff and followed as intended.
• Some of the work set for pupils is not well matched to their needs. This means pupils are not achieving as highly as they could. Staff need to ensure that they use checks on learning to inform their teaching more accurately, adapt learning and raise the expectations of what pupils can achieve.
• The ambitious curriculum is in the early stages of development. This means the order and detail of the knowledge to be taught is not yet clear enough. The school must ensure that what to teach and when is explicitly signposted to staff and that it is then taught as intended. The Department for Education has further guidance on how to complain about a school.

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