Ofsted

King's Wood School was inspected in December 2024. Inspectors reported:

Pupils have many opportunities to develop their talents and interests.
Pupils have a love of music... They enjoy learning musical instruments, including violin, drums, ukulele, recorder and keyboard.
Pupils access educational opportunities, such as theatre visits, school performances and choir concerts, with an increasing sense of accomplishment and confidence.

Leaders have a clear and ambitious vision.
In subjects such as mathematics, physical education (PE) and history, pupils learn well.
In history, pupils have good recall of key knowledge and can discuss ideas... confidently.
Pupils enjoy rich, challenging texts that help to motivate and engage them.

Children in the early years make a positive start.
Children thrive when taking part in thoughtful activities such as making gingerbread men, kneading dough, cutting and shaping.
Staff develop children’s language deliberately... using words meaningfully.
Children develop increasing independence and readiness for their next stage of education.

The school identifies and meets the needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) well overall.
The school’s resourced provision for pupils with speech and language difficulties provides effective support for pupils’ learning.
Pupils say, ‘We celebrate everybody’s cultures here.'

'The teachers are not only knowledgeable but genuinely care about the well-being and success of each student.'–King's Wood parent.
Staff are proud to work at the school.
The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

While we are delighted with the recognition of the above, we are already working hard on the areas identified for development:

Priority Area	Actions in the School Development Plan
Enhanced Governance	Further equipping our governors with the tools and training to rigorously hold the school to account and drive educational quality.
Consistent delivery of phonics	Ensuring precise, uniform delivery of our phonics programme (Read, Write Inc.) through intensive training, coaching and monitoring.
Transcription	Introduction of Read Write Inc. handwriting programme.

Ofsted no longer give judgements regarding overall effectiveness.

The 2024 inspection report can be found here.

King's Wood School was inspected in March 2019. Inspectors reported:

Leaders have established a strong culture of nurture and ambition for all at the school.
Safeguarding is effective.
Leaders have a good understanding of the strengths and development areas of the school.
Teachers make good use of the strong relationships that they have established with pupils and their families.
Leaders have planned a broad and balanced curriculum.
Governors use their skills well and provide strong strategic challenge to leaders.
The leadership of the additionally resourced provision (ARP) is highly effective.
Other pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) benefit from the expertise that permeates the whole school.
Pupils’ progress is good overall.
Pupils are confident, happy and proud of their school; they behave well.
Pupils enjoy the wide range of extra-curricular activities.
Early years is led well.
Parents and carers are overwhelmingly positive about the school.

Ofsted judged schools against 5 key areas:

King's Wood was judged to be good in each of these areas, and therefore, the overall effectiveness was judged to be good.

The 2019 inspection report can be found here.