Calder Valley Steiner School is an independent day school which provides part-time and full-time education for 53 girls and boys aged from three to 11 years. This is a decrease from 75 at the time of the full inspection in May 2017. The school was first registered in 2011 and is currently registered with the DfE for 90 pupils. There is one pupil with an education health care plan. The school had a Progress Monitoring inspection in September 2017. At the time of the May 2017 full inspection the school had two sites, the original site in a former church house and Sunday school building in Cragg Vale, and a recently opened site in part of an industrial unit in Brierley near Luddenden Foot. Since then the school remained at the original site and temporarily relocated the two kindergarten classes into the community room in the adjacent parish church in the autumn term. These classes moved into the main school building in January 2018. The church community room is no longer being used. The school is actively seeking alternative accommodation and intends to keep all classes on one site. It has a small outside garden play area by the school entrance and in the summer also uses the adjacent graveyard where tombstones have been cleared and grass mown. The graveyard is only used in dry weather in the summer and so was not in use at the time of the present inspection. Each day the kindergarten classes go into nearby woods for a walk and play activities. One walk has a shelter and for the other a tarpaulin is used to provide overhead cover when required. The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is provided in two kindergarten classes with an age range from three to six years and which have a total of thirty- one children attending. There are nine pupils in Class 1/2, six in Class 3 and thirteen in Class 4/5. For some lessons and in the afternoons, Class 3 joins Class 4/5. Class 6/7/8 was discontinued in December 2017, ensuring that the school is now within its registered age range of three to twelve. Calder Valley Steiner School seeks to enable children to find their own strengths, to provide them with the inner resources to overcome any educational challenges they face, and to develop in them faculties which will help them to live as creative, freethinking individuals. The mission statement for the school is “Making Time for Childhood”. The school has been granted exemptions from some aspects of the learning and development requirements of the EYFS. Steiner Class Names Kindergarten Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 National Curriculum Year Groups Nursery, Year R Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Progress monitoring report for Calder Valley Steiner School 1 and 2 February 2018 SECTION B: Progress in relation to the school’s action plan and compliance with the independent school standards. Part 3, paragraph 7(a): make arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of pupils at the school. The standard is now met. Safeguarding training has now been completed for staff and trustees, as has Prevent training. Information from Calderdale local authority Prevent Coordination Team has been circulated to all staff who have signed to acknowledge that they have read this. The same has also been done for the school’s safeguarding policy and for Keeping Children Safe in Education (2016). Early Years staff safeguarding training was also completed in November 2017 and included issues relating to the identification of neglect and abuse. The School Manager is a member of the appointments Panel and has received training in safer recruitment. There are excellent links with Calderdale safeguarding team and other agencies including Barnardo’s. NSPCC booklets have been distributed throughout the school.