Ofsted

The school was inspected on 3-4 December 2024.  Ofsted no longer give judgements for overall effectiveness.  The inspection report can be found here.

The school was inspected on 19-20 March 2019.   

The outcome is that King's Wood was judged to be a GOOD school.

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The key strengths highlighted in the Ofsted report include:

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• 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

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Ofsted judges schools against 5 key areas:

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• Effectiveness of leadership and management

• Quality of teaching, learning and assessment

• Pupil development, behaviour and welfare

• Outcomes for pupils

• Early years provision

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

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