Pupils enjoy school and join in enthusiastically with their lessons. They behave well, showing care and respect towards each other, their teachers and visitors. Older pupils act as ‘buddies’, helping younger pupils to feel safe. Incidents of bullying are rare. Pupils know how to report any concerns they have, and have confidence that staff will resolve them quickly. Pupils are kept safe while in school. However, the proprietor and school leaders have not fulfilled their statutory safeguarding responsibilities relating to pupils leaving the school roll. This means that these pupils may be at risk of going missing from education. The curriculum is ambitious in most subjects and is planned with the aim of helping pupils to produce work of a good quality. The curriculum is enriched by a programme of educational visits. Pupils have enjoyed outings to the Science and Ragged School museums as well as to the local wetlands centre. Despite studying a range of subjects, pupils achieve very few formal or recognised qualifications by the time they leave the school. This limits their readiness for the next stage of their education, employment or training. Pupils have opportunity to take on additional responsibilities. For example, they enjoy organising whole-school events such as sports competitions and the annual production.