Pupils are welcomed to St Vincent’s School with a warm smile and a friendly greeting. They benefit from a culture that celebrates their strengths and talents. This helps pupils to feel valued members of the school community. Pupils enjoy caring and nurturing relationships with staff who know them well. They trust that there is always an adult available to help them if they are worried. Pupils are respectful of others and behave well around the school. They are quick to offer help to each other, such as guiding their peers back to class. Staff respond swiftly and sensitively to pupils’ emotional needs. Pupils feel happy and safe. An impressive range of wider enrichment projects provide pupils with a strong sense of belief in themselves and a ‘can-do’ attitude. Pupils have opportunities to represent the school and to be positive role models for the visually impaired community locally, nationally and internationally. This ambition, however, is not matched with the same high expectations of what the pupils should achieve academically. Many curriculum subjects are still in the early stages of development. This means that pupils are not as well prepared as they could be for their next steps in education.