The Old School House
1 March Road, Friday Bridge, Wisbech, PE14 0HAOpen in maps (opens in a new tab)
The Old School House is a special school in Wisbech for ages 6 to 16. It is one of the 309 schools in Cambridgeshire. Its latest Ofsted rating is Good, from an inspection in June 2025.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 3 June 2025, report published 2 July 2025
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding
- Met
What Ofsted said
From the inspection on 3 June 2025
The Old School House is a welcoming place. Pupils are friendly and well-mannered. They thrive in the school's close, family atmosphere. Over time, pupils develop warm, trusting relationships with staff. These help pupils to feel safe and enable them to enjoy school in a way that they have not done previously. Attendance at the school is high. Clear boundaries and well-established routines help pupils to behave well. They listen attentively in lessons, to their teachers and to each other. There is a strong culture of respect here. All pupils have special educational needs and/or disabilities, including social and emotional difficulties. When pupils struggle to regulate their emotions, staff support them to reset so they are ready to learn. Pupils' needs are very well met. Pupils like playing card and board games at social times. They enjoy opportunities to venture outside the school. For example, they go to a local park for sports activities or to the shops to buy ingredients for cooking. Pupils relish their trips further afield, such as visits to a science centre and an outdoor leisure park. These enhance pupils' learning and develop various life skills such as resilience and independence.
What the school should improve
- In some wider curriculum subjects, the curriculum is not taught in a coherent sequence towards clearly identified endpoints. As a result, pupils do not build secure knowledge of the key learning in these subjects as well as they could do. The school should ensure that it sets out a clearly sequenced curriculum with identified endpoints and supports staff to deliver this effectively in all subjects so that pupils build their knowledge securely.
- Occasionally, staff subject knowledge is not as strong as it could be. This means that sometimes staff do not address errors or misconceptions effectively. This hinders pupils' progress and means that some misconceptions persist. The school should support staff subject knowledge and build staff confidence so that pupils learn as well as possible in all subjects.
Pupil numbers and mix
11 pupils on roll, with places for 15
Schools near The Old School House
| School | Distance | Ofsted | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelldene House School | 0.2 miles | Ofsted: Good | Not published |
| Cambian Home Tree School | 0.8 miles | Ofsted: Good | Attainment 8: 9.2 |
| Begdale House School | 1 mile | No Ofsted inspection | Not published |
| Meadowgate Academy | 3 miles | Ofsted: Outstanding | 0% met the expected standard |
| On Track Education Wisbech | 3 miles | Report card: Expected standard to strong standard | Attainment 8: 1.3 |
School details
- School type
- Other independent special school
- Sector
- Independent
- Age range
- 6 to 16
- Gender
- Boys
- Headteacher
- Miss Susan Clark
- Phone
- 01945861114
- Address
- 1 March Road, Friday Bridge, Wisbech, PE14 0HA
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire
- URN
- 133651
School details from Get Information about Schools, 17 September 2026. Ofsted outcomes published to 31 August 2026. Pupil mix from the school census, 2025/26.