This is a welcoming and supportive school where pupils receive a high level of support. Staff understand pupils’ social and emotional needs well and build positive relationships. Pupils feel safe and trust staff to help them. Bullying is not an issue. When pupils display challenging behaviour, well-trained, caring staff are on hand to help them settle and refocus. However, pupils do not attend school as often as they should. Since joining The Gallery Trust in February 2020, leaders have overcome many challenges, such as the pandemic, staffing changes and transition to a new-build site. However, the trust has been too slow to implement an ambitious curriculum. Pupils are not taught well enough in all subjects, and the school has not given enough consideration to how learning will build year on year. As a result, pupils do not achieve as well as they should. The school is now improving. The new leadership team has successfully established a positive, aspirational community culture with high expectations for behaviour. The team is rightly focused on redesigning the curriculum. Improvements have been made, but there is still work to ensure the curriculum is ambitious and caters effectively for pupils’ special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).