A Bradley school for troubled children is turning round young lives, according to Ofsted.
Inspector Alastair Younger has graded the Primary Pupil Referral Service, based at the Deighton Centre, as Good and was full of praise for the leaders and their work.
His inspection focused only on the outcomes of pupils at Bradley Pupil Referral Unit, St Thomas’s Gardens.
The school, led by headteacher Jayne Foster, caters for 17 pupils aged five to 11, many of whom have been excluded from other schools. All have special needs of varying kinds.
Ofsted said: “The school is the hub of the local authority’s approach to coping with misbehaviour in schools and reducing exclusions.”
Mr Younger said: “Pupils achieve well. From very varied, often low, starting points they make rapid progress and nearly all return successfully to mainstream or special schools.
“Teaching is good. Teachers understand their very specialised roles very well and develop good, trusting relationships with pupils. Classrooms are bright and stimulating. Improving pupils’ literacy and communication skills forms a central part of nearly all teaching.
“Improved attitudes to learning and better behaviour are the main reasons why so many pupils return quickly to mainstream schools. Nearly every pupil attends regularly.
“The way leaders and managers work to make pupils lives better across all the primary schools in the authority is exceptional; there is a highly successful focus on trying to keep pupils in their schools and preventing exclusion.
“The headteacher leads and manages a large and complex service with inspiration. Day-to-day responsibility for leading and managing the school rests with the deputy headteacher, who is, again, a strong leader.
“This is a school that is improving and has a huge capacity to keep on doing so.”
He added that some teaching and marking could continue to improve.
Most pupils are white British and there are many more boys than girls.
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