TTD Gur School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 14 May 2024

Leaders and school staff are motivated and determined to make improvements. The school is ambitious to raise pupils' achievement. There is a more focused approach to the teaching of early reading. There is greater emphasis on identifying gaps in pupils' knowledge in English and mathematics and on addressing these gaps. However, many of the school's intended improvements to the curriculum and quality of education are still at the planning stage and have not been introduced and realised. The current curriculum remains narrow and does not support pupils to develop strong knowledge and skills across a wide range of subjects. Provision for pupils' wider development has improved substantially since the previous inspection. Pupils now attend extra-curricular clubs during the school day. These include chess, weaving and learning to play the keyboard. Pupils are encouraged to care for others and to contribute actively to the school and local community. For example, pupils run a tuckshop, help with litter picking and visit residents at a local care home for the elderly. Pupils are safe and happy here. Older pupils lead performances for younger pupils to encourage appropriate behaviour. Pupils' conduct has improved. Pupils behave responsibly. They treat each other with courtesy and respect.

What the school should improve

• The curriculum is not broad or well sequenced. As a result, pupils do not build knowledge and skills cumulatively across a broad range of subjects. The proprietor body and leaders must implement the school's new curriculum subject plans to ensure that pupils learn a range of subjects that match the requirements of the independent school standards and the breadth and ambition of the national curriculum.
• Teachers have not received subject-specific training to build their knowledge to teach the subject content of the school's new curriculum subject plans. As a result, teachers do not have the subject expertise to deliver the specific content when the new curriculum subject plans are implemented. The school must ensure that teachers are trained and prepared to implement the new curriculum subject plans successfully.
• The proprietor body's plans to ensure that the teaching of secular subjects has the allocated time needed to deliver all the subjects required by the independent school standards are not finalised or realised. Without this, previously unmet independent school standards remain unmet and may have a serious impact on pupils' academic development. The school must ensure that all the independent school standards are met consistently and securely. This includes making, and following through, firm decisions to implement the school's new curriculum subject plans.
• The school has not developed the early years curriculum since the time of the previous inspection. The school does not have a programme of activities which is appropriate to their educational needs in relation to personal, social, emotional and physical development and communication and language skills for children below compulsory school age. The school should ensure that it has a written policy, plans and schemes of work for the ages of all pupils for which it is registered.

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